You're reading from Learn Ansible Automate your cloud infrastructure, security configuration, and application deployment with Ansible

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835088913

Length 414 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Russ McKendrick

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introducing, Installing, and Running Ansible FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Installing and Running Ansible

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Ansible Galaxy

4. Chapter 3: The Ansible Commands

5. Part 2: Deploying Applications

6. Chapter 4: Deploying a LAMP Stack

7. Chapter 5: Deploying WordPress

8. Chapter 6: Targeting Multiple Distributions

9. Chapter 7: Ansible Windows Modules

10. Part 3: Network and Cloud Automation

11. Chapter 8: Ansible Network Modules

12. Chapter 9: Moving to the Cloud

13. Chapter 10: Building Out a Cloud Network

14. Chapter 11: Highly Available Cloud Deployments

15. Chapter 12: Building Out a VMware Deployment

16. Part 4: Ansible Workflows

17. Chapter 13: Scanning Your Ansible Playbooks

18. Chapter 14: Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible

19. Chapter 15: Using Ansible with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps

20. Chapter 16: Introducing Ansible AWX and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

21. Chapter 17: Next Steps with Ansible

22. Index

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The Ansible release life cycle

In the previous chapter, when we installed Ansible, the keen-eyed among you may have spotted a few different Ansible packages installed using the sudo -H pip install ansible command.

What follows is an edited version of the output of installing Ansible using pip:

 $ sudo -H pip install ansible
Collecting ansible
  Downloading ansible-8.2.0-py3-none-any.whl (45.1 MB)
Collecting ansible-core~=2.15.2
  Downloading ansible_core-2.15.2-py3-none-any.whl (2.2 MB)
Installing collected packages: resolvelib, packaging, ansible-core, ansible
Successfully installed ansible-8.2.0 ansible-core-2.15.2 packaging-23.1 resolvelib-1.0.1

As you can see, two main Ansible packages were installed: ansible-8.2.0 and ansible-core-2.15.2. Before we discuss the difference between the two packages, let’s quickly discuss how Ansible was maintained and packaged up until version 2.9 of Ansible.

Every version of Ansible before version 2.10 shipped...