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Learn Ansible

You're reading from   Learn Ansible Automate cloud, security, and network infrastructure using Ansible 2.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788998758
Length 578 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Russ McKendrick Russ McKendrick
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Preface 1. An Introduction to Ansible FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing and Running Ansible 3. The Ansible Commands 4. Deploying a LAMP Stack 5. Deploying WordPress 6. Targeting Multiple Distributions 7. The Core Network Modules 8. Moving to the Cloud 9. Building Out a Cloud Network 10. Highly Available Cloud Deployments 11. Building Out a VMware Deployment 12. Ansible Windows Modules 13. Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible and OpenSCAP 14. Deploying WPScan and OWASP ZAP 15. Introducing Ansible Tower and Ansible AWX 16. Ansible Galaxy 17. Next Steps with Ansible 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Ansible Tower

We are going to start by looking at Ansible Tower. As you may recall, this is commercial software, so we will need a license; luckily, Red Hat provides a trial license. You can request it by clicking on the Try Tower Free button at https://www.ansible.com/.

Please note, you must use a business address, Ansible will not accept requests which originate from an email address such as me.com, icloud.com, gmail.com, and hotmain.com and so on.

After a while, you will receive an email that looks like the following:

Click on the DOWNLOAD TOWER NOW (.TAR) button; this will open your browser and download a TAR file containing the playbooks we will be running to deploy Ansible Tower. Next up, we need a server to host our Ansible Tower installation. Let's use the Vagrantfile we have used in other chapters:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

API_VERSION = "2&quot...
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