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You're reading from Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux Efficiently perform large-scale Linux infrastructure automation with Ansible

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789131611

Length 512 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Workflow Automation

Author (1):

James Freeman

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Core Concepts

2. Building a Standard Operating Environment on Linux FREE CHAPTER

3. Automating Your IT Infrastructure with Ansible

4. Streamlining Infrastructure Management with AWX

5. Section 2: Standardizing Your Linux Servers

6. Deployment Methodologies

7. Using Ansible to Build Virtual Machine Templates for Deployment

8. Custom Builds with PXE Booting

9. Configuration Management with Ansible

10. Section 3: Day-to-Day Management

11. Enterprise Repository Management with Pulp

12. Patching with Katello

13. Managing Users on Linux

14. Database Management

15. Performing Routine Maintenance with Ansible

16. Section 4: Securing Your Linux Servers

17. Using CIS Benchmarks

18. CIS Hardening with Ansible

19. Auditing Security Policy with OpenSCAP

20. Tips and Tricks

21. Assessments

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Technical requirements

This chapter includes examples based on the following technologies:

Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS
CentOS 7.6
Ansible 2.8

To run through these examples, you will need access to two servers or virtual machines running one of each of the operating systems listed here, and also Ansible. Note that the examples given in this chapter may be destructive in nature (for example, they install and uninstall software packages and make changes to server configuration), and if run as-is, they are only intended to be run in an isolated test environment.

Once you are satisfied that you have a safe environment in which to operate, let's get started on looking at the installation of new software packages with Ansible.

All example code discussed in this chapter is available from GitHub, at the following URL: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Enterprise-Automation...

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Authors (1)

James Freeman

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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