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Learning Ansible 2.7

You're reading from Learning Ansible 2.7 Automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789954333

Length 266 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Configuration Management

Author (1):

Fabio Alessandro Locati

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Creating a Web Server Using Ansible

2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER

3. Automating Simple Tasks

4. Section 2: Deploying Playbooks in a Production Environment

5. Scaling to Multiple Hosts

6. Handling Complex Deployment

7. Going Cloud

8. Getting Notification from Ansible

9. Section 3: Deploying an Application with Ansible

10. Creating a Custom Module

11. Debugging and Error Handling

12. Complex Environments

13. Section 4: Deploying an Application with Ansible

14. Introducing Ansible for Enterprises

15. Getting Started with AWX

16. Working with AWX Users, Permissions, and Organizations

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Provisioning machines in DigitalOcean

Compared to AWS, DigitalOcean seems to be very incomplete. DigitalOcean, until a few months ago, only provided droplets, SSH key management, and DNS management. At the time of writing, DigitalOcean has very recently launched an additional block storage service. The advantages of DigitalOcean compared to many competitors are as follows:

Lower prices than AWS.
Very easy APIs.
Very well-documented APIs.
The droplets are very similar to standard virtual machines (they don't do weird customization).
The droplets are very quick to go up and down.
Since DigitalOcean has a very simple networking stack, it's way more efficient than the AWS one.

Droplets

Droplets are the main service...

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Authors (1)

Fabio Alessandro Locati

Fabio Alessandro Locati

Fabio Alessandro Locati – commonly known as Fale – is an EMEA associate principal solutions architect at Red Hat, a public speaker, an author, and an open source contributor. His primary areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale has more than 15 years of working experience in IT, with many of them spent consulting for various organizations, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Fale has written Learning Ansible 2.7, Learning Ansible 2, and OpenStack Cloud Security, and has been part of the review process of multiple books.

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