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Learning Ansible 2.7

You're reading from   Learning Ansible 2.7 Automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789954333
Length 266 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Creating a Web Server Using Ansible
2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Automating Simple Tasks 4. Section 2: Deploying Playbooks in a Production Environment
5. Scaling to Multiple Hosts 6. Handling Complex Deployment 7. Going Cloud 8. Getting Notification from Ansible 9. Section 3: Deploying an Application with Ansible
10. Creating a Custom Module 11. Debugging and Error Handling 12. Complex Environments 13. Section 4: Deploying an Application with Ansible
14. Introducing Ansible for Enterprises 15. Getting Started with AWX 16. Working with AWX Users, Permissions, and Organizations 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Ansible Tower and AWX

Ansible Tower is a web-based GUI that was developed by Red Hat. Ansible Tower provides you with an easy-to-use dashboard where you can manage your nodes and role-based authentication to control access to your Ansible Tower dashboard. The biggest features of Ansible Tower are as follows:

  • LDAP/AD integration: You can import (and give privileges to) users based on the result of LDAP/AD queries that Ansible Tower performs on your LDAP/AD server.
  • Role-based access control: It limits the users to only run the playbooks they are authorized to run and/or target only a limited amount of hosts.
  • REST API: All Ansible Tower capabilities are exposed via a REST API.
  • Job scheduling: Ansible Tower allows us to schedule jobs (playbook execution).
  • Graphical inventory management: Ansible Tower manages the inventory in a more dynamic way than Ansible.
  • Dashboard: Ansible Tower...
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