Managing Your Virtualization and Cloud Platforms

Since the introduction of virtualization and cloud computing, organizations can handle their IT infrastructure using programmatic methods since most of the IT components are software-defined, such as software-defined data centers (SDDC), software-defined storage (SDS), software-defined networking (SDN), and others. But this additional layer of technologies also made infrastructure management more complex as engineers need to handle both the underlying infrastructure and the overcloud virtual components.

Ansible can help you automate both the underlying cloud infrastructure as well as the overcloud virtual components such as the automated cluster configurations of virtualization platforms (VMware, OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, and others). It can also help you provision virtual components such as virtual machines, virtual networks, and virtual storage.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Introduction...