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Learn Ansible

You're reading from   Learn Ansible Automate cloud, security, and network infrastructure using Ansible 2.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788998758
Length 578 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Russ McKendrick Russ McKendrick
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Preface 1. An Introduction to Ansible 2. Installing and Running Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. The Ansible Commands 4. Deploying a LAMP Stack 5. Deploying WordPress 6. Targeting Multiple Distributions 7. The Core Network Modules 8. Moving to the Cloud 9. Building Out a Cloud Network 10. Highly Available Cloud Deployments 11. Building Out a VMware Deployment 12. Ansible Windows Modules 13. Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible and OpenSCAP 14. Deploying WPScan and OWASP ZAP 15. Introducing Ansible Tower and Ansible AWX 16. Ansible Galaxy 17. Next Steps with Ansible 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Web-based Ansible

Before we look at installing the tools, we should first take the time to discuss why we need them and also the differences between them.

I am sure you are starting to notice a common thread between all of the playbooks we have covered so far—where possible, we are allowing the roles we are running to use as many parameters as possible. This makes it easy for us to change the output of the playbook run without having to rewrite or edit the roles directly. For this reason, it should also be easy for us to start using one of the two web-based tools provided by Red Hat for managing your Ansible deployments.

Ansible Tower is a commercially licensed, web-based graphical interface for Ansible. As already mentioned, you might be struggling to see the value in this. Imagine being able to hook Ansible up to your company's active directory and have users, such...

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