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Ansible Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Ansible Quick Start Guide Control and monitor infrastructures of any size, physical or virtual

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532937
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Alibi Mohamed Alibi
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What is Ansible? FREE CHAPTER 2. Ansible Setup and Configuration 3. Ansible Inventory and Playbook 4. Ansible Modules 5. Ansible Automated Infrastructure 6. Ansible Coding for Configuration Management 7. Ansible Galaxy and Community Roles 8. Ansible Advanced Features 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Linux infrastructure automation

We are going to start by looking at various use cases that involve Linux administration. In this section, we are going to identify a task that is usually done manually and try to automate as much of it as possible. An administrator may still be required in situations where there are errors or misconfiguration.

We are going to divide the following use cases into subcategories to better identify their role in general. In each case, we will look at several Ansible tasks. These will either follow a playbook sequence, be executed if certain conditions are met, or be carried out within a loop.

System management automation

Within this subsection, we are going to show some use cases involving system...

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