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Practical Ansible

You're reading from   Practical Ansible Learn how to automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications

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ISBN-13 9781805129974
Length 420 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Fabio Alessandro Locati – commonly known as Fale – is an EMEA associate principal solutions architect at Red Hat, a public speaker, an author, and an open source contributor. His primary areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale has more than 15 years of working experience in IT, with many of them spent consulting for various organizations, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Fale has written Learning Ansible 2.7, Learning Ansible 2, and OpenStack Cloud Security, and has been part of the review process of multiple books.
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James Freeman is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years’ experience in the technology industry. He has more than a decade of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, open source, and AWS. As part of this work, he frequently introduces Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. In addition, he has co-authored five books and one video training course on Ansible, facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.
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Daniel Oh is a Java Champion and senior principal developer advocate at Red Hat. He works to evangelize building cloud-native microservices and serverless functions with cloud-native runtimes to developers. He also continues to contribute to various open source cloud projects and ecosystems as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ambassador to accelerate hybrid cloud platform adoption in a variety of enterprises. Daniel also speaks at technical seminars, workshops, and meetups to elaborate on new emerging technologies for enterprise developers, SREs, platform engineers, and DevOps teams.
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Preface 1. Part 1:Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible 4. Chapter 3: Defining Your Inventory 5. Chapter 4: Playbooks and Roles 6. Part 2:Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
7. Chapter 5: Creating and Consuming Modules 8. Chapter 6: Creating and Consuming Collections 9. Chapter 7: Creating and Consuming Plugins 10. Chapter 8: Coding Best Practices 11. Chapter 9: Advanced Ansible Topics 12. Part 3:Using Ansible in an Enterprise
13. Chapter 10: Network Automation with Ansible 14. Chapter 11: Container and Cloud Management 15. Chapter 12: Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies 16. Chapter 13: Getting Started with Ansible Automation Controller 17. Chapter 14: Execution Environments 18. Assessments 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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  1. On which operating systems can you set up an Ansible control node? (There are multiple correct answers.)
    1. Ubuntu 22.04
    2. Fedora 35
    3. Windows Server 2022
    4. HP-UX
    5. Mainframe
  2. Which protocol does Ansible use to connect to non-Windows managed nodes for running tasks?
    1. HTTP
    2. HTTPS
    3. SSH
    4. TCP
    5. UDP
  3. To execute a specific module in the Ansible ad hoc command line, you need to use the -m option.
    1. True
    2. False
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James Freeman is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than a decade of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, open source, and AWS. As part of this work, he frequently introduces Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. In addition, he has co-authored five books and one video training course on Ansible, facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.
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Daniel Oh is a Java Champion and senior principal developer advocate at Red Hat. He works to evangelize building cloud-native microservices and serverless functions with cloud-native runtimes to developers. He also continues to contribute to various open source cloud projects and ecosystems as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ambassador to accelerate hybrid cloud platform adoption in a variety of enterprises. Daniel also speaks at technical seminars, workshops, and meetups to elaborate on new emerging technologies for enterprise developers, SREs, platform engineers, and DevOps teams.
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