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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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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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

Managing cloud platforms using Ansible

As you learned in the previous chapters, Ansible can manage both Linux, Windows, and network devices. But virtualization platforms work differently and you cannot use SSH-based connections and operations to automate such platforms. Most of these platforms offer application programming interface (API) and software development kit (SDK)-based access to help us access and control such platforms over HTTP (or HTTPS). Since Ansible can use SDK (Python libraries) and communicate over HTTP/HTTPS, it is possible to automate any platforms that offer such access.

The following diagram shows the different connection methods used by Ansible to communicate with the managed devices and platforms:

Figure 7.2 – Ansible connection methods

Application Programming Interface

An API is a connection or protocol that allows one system to communicate with another using a dedicated set of instructions and results. Unlike command...

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