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Ansible for Real-Life Automation

You're reading from   Ansible for Real-Life Automation A complete Ansible handbook filled with practical IT automation use cases

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235417
Length 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gineesh Madapparambath Gineesh Madapparambath
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Preface 1. Part 1: Using Ansible as Your Automation Tool
2. Chapter 1: Ansible Automation – Introduction FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Starting with Simple Automation 4. Chapter 3: Automating Your Daily Jobs 5. Chapter 4: Exploring Collaboration in Automation Development 6. Part 2: Finding Use Cases and Integrations
7. Chapter 5: Expanding Your Automation Landscape 8. Chapter 6: Automating Microsoft Windows and Network Devices 9. Chapter 7: Managing Your Virtualization and Cloud Platforms 10. Chapter 8: Helping the Database Team with Automation 11. Chapter 9: Implementing Automation in a DevOps Workflow 12. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Using Ansible 13. Chapter 11: Managing Kubernetes Using Ansible 14. Chapter 12: Integrating Ansible with Your Tools 15. Chapter 13: Using Ansible for Secret Management 16. Part 3: Managing Your Automation Development Flow with Best Practices
17. Chapter 14: Keeping Automation Simple and Efficient 18. Chapter 15: Automating Non-Standard Platforms and Operations 19. Chapter 16: Ansible Automation Best Practices for Production 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating custom modules for Ansible

In the previous sections, you learned how to automate operations if the standard modules are not available for specific tasks. But modules are the standard way of implementing automation and help you develop Ansible playbooks without worrying about the complex operations in the backend. If you know the backend operations and how to execute the tasks in the backend, then create a module for Ansible to execute a specific operation. Finally, contribute it back to the community via Ansible collections. That is the way the open source community grows.

Facts to check before creating a custom Ansible module

You can use any programming language (which can be called by the Ansible API, the ansible command, or the ansible-playbook command), libraries, and methods for your new Ansible module. Most of the Ansible modules that you are using now are written in the Python programming language. Before developing a new module, check yourself on the following...

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