Navigating Ansible Waters
In this chapter, we’ll walk through several recipes that will expand your knowledge on installing Oracle Linux Automation Manager (OLAM), managing its foundation, creating playbooks, maximizing those playbooks, and helping you understand the capabilities of OLAM. Each recipe will open your eyes to the full scope of what automation can accomplish; from patching to deploying fully functional hybrid cloud environments, OLAM can change the direction in which you think of computing and open your mind to a new world of rinse and repeat. The following are the touch points of a small subsection of what automation can simplify.
Figure 12.1 – Automation touch points
In this chapter, the following recipes will cover the installation, configuration, and usability of the OLAM platform:
- Installing OLAM
- Zip through configuring and managing OLAM from the foundation up
- OLAM isn’t fantasy football, but they...