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Getting Started with Ansible

Information and communications technology (ICT) is often described as a fast-growing industry. I think that the best quality of the ICT industry is not related to its ability to grow at a super-high speed, but is related to its ability to revolutionize itself, and the rest of the world, at an astonishing pace.

Every 10 to 15 years there are major shifts in how this industry works, and every shift solves problems that were very hard to manage up to that point, creating new challenges. Also, at every major shift, many of the best practices of the previous iteration are classified as anti-patterns, and new best practices are created. Although it might appear that those changes are impossible to predict, this is not always true. Obviously, it is not possible to know exactly what changes will occur and when they will take place, but looking at companies...

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Get familiar with the fundamentals of Ansible 2.7

Understand how to use Ansible Tower to scale your IT automation

Gain insights into how to develop and test Ansible playbooks

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Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With the release of Ansible 2.7, even complex tasks can be handled much more easily than before. Learning Ansible 2.7 will help you take your first steps toward understanding the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible by introducing you to topics such as playbooks, modules, and the installation of Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), and Windows support. In addition to this, you will focus on various testing strategies, deployment, and orchestration to build on your knowledge. The book will then help you get accustomed to features including cleaner architecture, task blocks, and playbook parsing, which can help you to streamline automation processes. Next, you will learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) before gaining insights into the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy. This will help you to use Ansible to interact with different operating systems and improve your working efficiency. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the Ansible skills you need to automate complex tasks for your organization.

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Create a web server using Ansible

Write a custom module and test it

Deploy playbooks in the production environment

Troubleshoot networks using Ansible

Use Ansible Galaxy and Ansible Tower during deployment

Deploy an application with Ansible on AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean

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Sp3c1 May 17, 2020

I bought the book since this is fairly recent, ansible 2.9 is the current version. I first considered ansible up and running from O'Reilly Press but that book is a little bit aged and reviews said that it great but it should be updated to a new edition soon. This is why I landed on this book. Unfortunately, I feel I learned not a whole lot from this book. The Author is giving examples but is failing to explain these. Or I was unable to follow as good. Also, the author is half helping with the vagrant setup, It took me a couple of hours to have a working environment with vagrant since I had to research a whole bunch. I would have liked a better thought through examples. In fact, after this book, I have read the extract from ansible up and running which is containing the first two chapters. Which explained vagrant in a far better way and how I can get started.I am missing for whom this book is written because I feel the examples are really basic but the missing of explanations I would assume it's for more advanced users. I guess this book is missing some kind of clear concept. Sometimes the Author is touching onto topics that seem completely out of place at that moment.I recently purchased jeff Geerling's Ansible for DevOps ebook which is regularly updated so it is really current, and it fits me a lot more. Since the Author is really clear about what he is trying to achieve.Unfortunately, I missed the date to give the kindle version back of this book.

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Mike R. Mar 14, 2020

Comprehensive yet simple

SirM Aug 31, 2019

One can tell from introduction going forward the author did not in anyway rely much on readers feedback from previous edition thus you have the same introductory formula in writing style applied. The author assumes the readers somehow have an ideal setup like he does whereby when using vagrant you have ssh issues, does not indicate whether he uses global or local inventory file and thus you have to fill-in the gaps via google search. Literally the material is hard to digest thus a greater balance of understanding will depend on the user investing their time on official ansible docs. A half baked effort that is not engaging, could have been better.

Learning Ansible 2.7: Automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7 , Third Edition

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