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Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform
Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform: A definitive way to manage Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Tower

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Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

Introduction to Ansible Automation Platform

Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) has many parts, with its most popular part being the Automation controller, previously known as Tower. First, we will cover the different parts of AAP and how they interact with each other.

In addition, there are multiple ways of interacting with the platform, including manually interacting with the web interface, and using Ansible modules and roles to configure different parts of the platform. These roles can be used to implement Configuration as Code (CaC).

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • AAP overview
  • Key differences between upstream and official Red Hat products
  • Overview of the methods that will be used in this book
  • Execution environments and Ansible Navigator
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  • Curated by a senior consultant at Red Hat with real-world examples to maximize use of Ansible Automation Platform
  • Use roles and modules to create interactive playbooks in Ansible Automation Platform
  • Discover best practices for simplifying management of Ansible Automation Platform

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While you can use any automation software to simplify task automation, scaling automation to suit your growing business needs becomes difficult using only a command-line tool. Ansible Automation Platform standardizes how automation is deployed, initiated, delegated, and audited, and this comprehensive guide shows you how you can simplify and scale its management. The book starts by taking you through the ways to get Ansible Automation Platform installed, their pros and cons, and the initial configuration. You’ll learn about each object in the platform, how it interacts with other objects, as well as best practices for defining and managing objects to save time. You’ll see how to maintain the created pieces with infrastructure as code. As you advance, you’ll monitor workflows with CI/CD playbooks and understand how Ansible Automation Platform integrates with many other services such as GitLab and GitHub. By the end of this book, you’ll have worked through real-world examples to make the most of the platform while learning how to manipulate, manage, and deploy any playbook to Ansible Automation Platform.

Who is this book for?

This book is for IT administrators, DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, and automation engineers seeking to understand and maintain the controller part of Ansible Automation Platform. If you have basic knowledge of Ansible, can set up a virtual machine, or have OpenShift experience, and want to know more about scaling Ansible, this book is for you.

What you will learn

  • Get the hang of different parts of Ansible Automation Platform and their maintenance
  • Back up and restore an installation of Ansible Automation Platform
  • Launch and configure basic and advanced workflows and jobs
  • Create your own execution environment using CI/CD pipelines
  • Interact with Git, Red Hat Authentication Server, and logging services
  • Integrate the Automation controller with services catalog
  • Use Automation Mesh to scale Automation Controller
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Table of Contents

20 Chapters
Part 1: Getting Ansible Automation Platform Up and Running Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Introduction to Ansible Automation Platform Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Installing Ansible Automation Platform Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Installing Ansible Automation Platform on OpenShift Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Configuring Settings and Authentication Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: Configuring AAP Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Configuring the Basics after Installation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Configuring Role-Based Access Control Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Creating Inventory, and Other Inventory Pieces Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Creating Execution Environments Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Automation Hub Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Creating Job Templates and Workflows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3: Extending Ansible Tower Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Creating Advanced Workflows and Jobs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Using CI/CD to Interact with Automation Controller Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 13: Integration with Other Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 14: Automating at Scale with Automation Mesh Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 15: Using Automation Services Catalog Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Frank Wu Jul 26, 2023
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Really appreciate the author sharing their real-world deployments at scale, Ansible is a very popular common open source tool, but not everybody deploys at scale across organizationally and this book helps give a lot of technical insights and best practices on deploying Ansible Automation Platform for success
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C. C Chin Jul 07, 2024
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Need any Tower help!! Sat thru AAP upgrade any book is a plus!!$$
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Brian Nov 13, 2022
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Excellent resource, I used this to help architect my Tower upgrade / AAP deployment. I particularly liked the charts/diagrams, great for visualizing what services chat with each other.Update ~6mo later: I upgraded our env from Tower 3.8.1 to AAP 2.2. This is the best 40 bucks I've ever spent.
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tman26416 Oct 03, 2022
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The book does a great job introducing the Ansible project and upstream open-source components that a leveraged as part of the Ansible Automation Platform. In the first few chapters, Sean introduces the Galaxy-NG project and AWX as the upstream projects contributing to Ansible Automation Platform. After comparing and contrasting between the two paths "supported" vs. "upstream non-supported", the book dives into all the various components for AAP2.I've been teaching various Ansible courses and using Ansible for multiple years and this book serves as an excellent reference for Ansible Automation Platform as well as has various examples using some of the Ansible collections for automation. I've used this book as a reference when I haven't been able to find some of the items in Red Hat's documentation easily. One example of this is with some of the integration of Ansible Private Automation Hub with LDAP, leveraging SSO.This book is NOT a what is Ansible and how do I use Ansible. Instead, it focuses on Ansible Controller and Automation Hub and the various components and how to configure and use those components. The Ansible components it does focus in on are the Execution Environments and creating custom execution environments as well as how to create and use Ansible inventory plugins. Both of these topics are more geared towards Ansible Automation Platform 2.x which is why they are covered more in-depth. The missing piece for me here too was a chapter or section on collections and creating collections, although the book was never geared towards the creation of collections and teaching Ansible basics.There are however a few minor detractors from the book, but these are being addressed in the errata. Based on the earlier chapters and how quickly open-source, upstream project development changes, the instructions for setting up things like Galaxy-NG have already changed and the tags in the book don't exist. There wasn't a separate "fork" of the repository made for the book, so by relying on the repository and tags, things can change and break. The author and publisher of the book, however, have created a repository with playbooks and code/instructions for each chapter as well as errata for the items in the book, so this *should* be your source of truth when copy/paste of the examples in the book don't quite work right.Overall, this is an excellent text covering much of the most valuable components of Ansible Automation Platform 2.x.
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