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You're reading from   Learn Ansible Automate your cloud infrastructure, security configuration, and application deployment with Ansible

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835088913
Length 414 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Russ McKendrick is an experienced DevOps practitioner and system administrator with a passion for automation and containers. He has been working in IT and related industries for the better part of 30 years. During his career, he has had responsibilities in many different sectors, including first-line, second-line, and senior support in client-facing and internal teams for small and large organizations.nHe works almost exclusively with Linux, using open source systems and tools across dedicated hardware and virtual machines hosted in public and private clouds at Node4, where he holds the title of practice manager (SRE and DevOps). He also buys way too many records!
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Preface 1. Part 1: Introducing, Installing, and Running Ansible FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Installing and Running Ansible 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Ansible Galaxy 4. Chapter 3: The Ansible Commands 5. Part 2: Deploying Applications
6. Chapter 4: Deploying a LAMP Stack 7. Chapter 5: Deploying WordPress 8. Chapter 6: Targeting Multiple Distributions 9. Chapter 7: Ansible Windows Modules 10. Part 3: Network and Cloud Automation
11. Chapter 8: Ansible Network Modules 12. Chapter 9: Moving to the Cloud 13. Chapter 10: Building Out a Cloud Network 14. Chapter 11: Highly Available Cloud Deployments 15. Chapter 12: Building Out a VMware Deployment 16. Part 4: Ansible Workflows
17. Chapter 13: Scanning Your Ansible Playbooks 18. Chapter 14: Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible 19. Chapter 15: Using Ansible with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps 20. Chapter 16: Introducing Ansible AWX and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 21. Chapter 17: Next Steps with Ansible 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Debian and Red Hat

This is where the world of Linux operating systems can get slightly confusing. Although we launch Ubuntu 22.04 and Rocky Linux 9 virtual machines to run our playbooks against, we will reference Debian and Red Hat within the playbook code.

Why is that? The reason behind this lies in the lineage of Linux distributions. Ubuntu is a descendant of the Debian operating system, inheriting its package management system and many other features. Similarly, Rocky Linux is a descendant of Red Hat, designed to be a downstream, bug-for-bug compatible release with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

So, when we mention Debian and Red Hat in our playbooks, we’re referring to the fundamental bases from which our two operating systems, Ubuntu and Rocky Linux, have evolved.

In practical terms, the playbook code will often check the underlying distribution type to determine how to proceed with specific tasks. For example, the commands to install a software package on a...

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Russ McKendrick is an experienced DevOps practitioner and system administrator with a passion for automation and containers. He has been working in IT and related industries for the better part of 30 years. During his career, he has had responsibilities in many different sectors, including first-line, second-line, and senior support in client-facing and internal teams for small and large organizations. He works almost exclusively with Linux, using open source systems and tools across dedicated hardware and virtual machines hosted in public and private clouds at Node4, where he holds the title of practice manager (SRE and DevOps). He also buys way too many records!
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