Practical Ansible – Second Edition: Learn how to automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications
Leverage the power of Ansible to gain complete control over your systems and automate deployments along with implementing configuration changes
Key Features:
- Orchestrate major cloud platforms such as OpenStack, AWS, and Azure
- Use Ansible to automate network devices
- Automate your containerized workload with Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes
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Book Description:
Ansible is a versatile automation tool that streamlines various tasks like software provisioning, configuration management, infrastructure deployment, and application rollouts. It serves both as a deployment and orchestration tool. Leveraging its agentless communication, Ansible simplifies multi-tier environment automation, while also addressing critical IT challenges such as ensuring smooth CI/CD pipelines with zero downtime.
This book introduces you to the latest version of Ansible, guiding you through resolving complex issues with practical, task-oriented scenarios. It starts with step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring Ansible on Linux and macOS, allowing you to automate repetitive IT tasks. You’ll explore key concepts like playbooks, inventories, and roles, while mastering YAML syntax and learning how to transition between different Ansible versions. Additionally, you’ll discover how Ansible orchestrates multi-layer environments, including networks, containers, and cloud infrastructures.
By the end of the book, you’ll be proficient in writing playbooks and leveraging Ansible’s full capabilities, from infrastructure-as-code provisioning to application deployments, as well as automating daily maintenance tasks.
Key Features:
- Step-by-step instructions to write error-free Ansible playbooks
- Practical examples for automating network, system, and cloud management tasks
- Best practices to effectively utilize Ansible in enterprise automation
This comprehensive guide introduces Ansible fundamentals with no prior experience required. It includes detailed explanations for setting up a lab environment, hands-on examples, and use cases, focusing on network, system, and cloud management. Whether you’re automating everyday administrative tasks or tackling large-scale enterprise automation, this book will enhance your Ansible skills and enable you to improve efficiency in your IT operations.
What You Will Learn:
- Explore the fundamentals of the Ansible framework
- Understand how collections enhance your automation efforts
- Avoid common mistakes and pitfalls when writing automation code
- Extend Ansible by developing your own modules and plugins
- Contribute to the Ansible project by submitting your own code
- Follow best practices for working with cloud environment inventories
- Troubleshoot issues triggered during Ansible playbook runs
Who this book is for:
This book is for DevOps engineers, administrators, or any IT professionals looking to automate IT tasks using Ansible. Prior knowledge of Ansible is not a prerequisite.
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