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Practical Ansible 2

You're reading from   Practical Ansible 2 Automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications with Ansible 2.9

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789807462
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fabio Alessandro Locati Fabio Alessandro Locati
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James Freeman James Freeman
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible 4. Defining Your Inventory 5. Playbooks and Roles 6. Section 2: Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
7. Consuming and Creating Modules 8. Consuming and Creating Plugins 9. Coding Best Practices 10. Advanced Ansible Topics 11. Section 3: Using Ansible in an Enterprise
12. Network Automation with Ansible 13. Container and Cloud Management 14. Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies 15. Getting Started with Ansible Tower 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the playbook framework

A playbook allows you to manage multiple configurations and complex deployments on many machines simply and easily. This is one of the key benefits of using Ansible for the delivery of complex applications. With playbooks, you can organize your tasks in a logical structure as tasks are (generally) executed in the order they are written, allowing you to have a good deal of control over your automation processes. With that said, it is possible to perform tasks asynchronously, so where tasks are not executed in sequence, we will highlight this. Our goal is that once you complete this chapter, you will understand the best practices for writing your own Ansible playbooks.

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