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Learn Ansible

You're reading from   Learn Ansible Automate cloud, security, and network infrastructure using Ansible 2.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788998758
Length 578 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Russ McKendrick is an experienced DevOps practitioner and system administrator with a passion for automation and containers. He has been working in IT and related industries for the better part of 30 years. During his career, he has had responsibilities in many different sectors, including first-line, second-line, and senior support in client-facing and internal teams for small and large organizations.nHe works almost exclusively with Linux, using open source systems and tools across dedicated hardware and virtual machines hosted in public and private clouds at Node4, where he holds the title of practice manager (SRE and DevOps). He also buys way too many records!
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Preface 1. An Introduction to Ansible 2. Installing and Running Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. The Ansible Commands 4. Deploying a LAMP Stack 5. Deploying WordPress 6. Targeting Multiple Distributions 7. The Core Network Modules 8. Moving to the Cloud 9. Building Out a Cloud Network 10. Highly Available Cloud Deployments 11. Building Out a VMware Deployment 12. Ansible Windows Modules 13. Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible and OpenSCAP 14. Deploying WPScan and OWASP ZAP 15. Introducing Ansible Tower and Ansible AWX 16. Ansible Galaxy 17. Next Steps with Ansible 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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We will be reusing the Vagrant box we launched in the previous chapter; if you have not been following along, please refer to the previous chapter for instructions on how to install both Ansible and Vagrant. There are a few playbook examples throughout this chapter; you can find the complete examples at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Ansible/tree/master/Chapter03.

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Russ McKendrick is an experienced DevOps practitioner and system administrator with a passion for automation and containers. He has been working in IT and related industries for the better part of 30 years. During his career, he has had responsibilities in many different sectors, including first-line, second-line, and senior support in client-facing and internal teams for small and large organizations. He works almost exclusively with Linux, using open source systems and tools across dedicated hardware and virtual machines hosted in public and private clouds at Node4, where he holds the title of practice manager (SRE and DevOps). He also buys way too many records!
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