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Ansible for Real-Life Automation

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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21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

The following are the technical requirements to proceed with this chapter:

A Linux machine as an Ansible control node (with internet access)
One or more Linux machines as managed nodes with Red Hat repositories configured (if you are using non-RHEL machines, then make sure you have appropriate repositories configured to get packages and updates)
Basic knowledge of the AWS platform and an AWS account with one or more test machines created

All the Ansible artifacts, playbooks, commands, and snippets for this chapter can be found in the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Ansible-for-Real-life-Automation/tree/main/Chapter-05.

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Authors (1)

Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath brings over 15 years of IT service management and consultancy expertise, specializing in infrastructure and automation projects. He's adept at crafting automation solutions using Ansible, showcased in his book "Ansible for Real-Life Automation." Gineesh excels in coordinating global data center infrastructure deployments across classic, private, and public cloud environments. With roles spanning from systems engineer to content author, his cross-cultural experience ensures seamless project execution and infrastructure design.

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