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

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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

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Due to the containerization of applications and the revolution in microservices, Kubernetes-based platforms have become popular. The containerization of applications and container orchestration using Kubernetes provide additional layers and complexity to infrastructure that requires automated solutions for managing a large number of components.

In the previous chapter, you learned about the capabilities of Ansible to build and manage container images and containers. When it comes to container orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift, there are Ansible collections available with modules and plugins for supporting and managing your Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift clusters and resources.

Using Ansible for Kubernetes resource management will help you to implement more integrations in your DevOps workflow and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to deploy your applications very flexibly.

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