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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Summary

In this chapter, you learned about IaC concepts and how to use Ansible as an IaC tool. You also learned about how Ansible can manage virtualization and cloud platforms such as VMware, AWS, and GCP. Then, you learned about the different methods and credential configurations for these platforms so that Ansible can access and execute automated operations.

Next, you explored the Ansible modules and collections that are available for VMware, AWS, and GCP. By developing the basic playbooks for creating new virtual machines (EC2 instances or GCP instances), you have started your journey in infrastructure automation and management. Expand the playbook’s content to build use cases suitable for your cloud and virtualization environment.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to help non-platform teams use Ansible for their automation use cases, such as building and managing databases using Ansible.