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

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235417

Length 480 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Gineesh Madapparambath

View More author details

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

Why subscribe?

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Helping the Database Team with Automation

Stateful applications, by definition, must save data persistently. So, when we talk about stateful applications, data will come into the picture, and hence, database servers. Choose any supported database software, depending on the type of data you want to store. This includes the number of transactions, the performance that’s required for your application, high availability and failover support, and many other factors. However, there are more important concerns, such as preparing the datastore, installing the necessary dependencies, packages or libraries. In terms of maintenance, this will be a continuous process as we need to take care of backups, data dumps, snapshots, and restoration in case of failure.

Ansible can help you in such situations. There are hundreds of Ansible database modules available that can help you implement your database automation tasks, including database installation, deployment, managing tables, managing...