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Practical Ansible. Learn how to automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications - Second Edition

Practical Ansible. Learn how to automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications - Second Edition

James Freeman, Fabio Alessandro Locati, Daniel Oh

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Ansible empowers you to automate a myriad of tasks, including software provisioning, configuration management, infrastructure deployment, and application rollouts. It can be used as a deployment tool as well as an orchestration tool. While Ansible provides simple yet powerful features to automate multi-layer environments using agentless communication, it can also solve other critical IT challenges, such as ensuring continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) with zero downtime.

In this book, you'll work with the latest release of Ansible and learn how to solve complex issues quickly with the help of task-oriented scenarios. You'll start by installing and configuring Ansible on Linux and macOS to automate monotonous and repetitive IT tasks and learn concepts such as playbooks, inventories, and roles. As you progress, you'll gain insight into the YAML syntax and learn how to port between Ansible versions. Additionally, you'll understand how Ansible enables you to orchestrate multi-layer environments such as networks, containers, and the cloud.

By the end of this Ansible book, you'll be well versed in writing playbooks and other related Ansible code to overcome all your IT challenges, from infrastructure-as-a-code provisioning to application deployments and handling mundane day-to-day maintenance tasks.
  • 1. Getting Started with Ansible
  • 2. Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible
  • 3. Defining Your Inventory
  • 4. Playbooks and Roles
  • 5. Creating and Consuming Modules
  • 6. Creating and Consuming Collections
  • 7. Creating and Consuming Plugins
  • 8. Coding Best Practices
  • 9. Advanced Ansible Topics
  • 10. Network Automation with Ansible
  • 11. Container and Cloud Management
  • 12. Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies
  • 13. Getting Started with Ansible Automation Controller
  • 14. Execution Environments
  • Title: Practical Ansible. Learn how to automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications - Second Edition
  • Author: James Freeman, Fabio Alessandro Locati, Daniel Oh
  • Original title: Practical Ansible. Learn how to automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications - Second Edition
  • ISBN: 9781805128397, 9781805128397
  • Date of issue: 2023-09-29
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3mxc
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing