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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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Oh Se Young Oh Se Young
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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 Fundamentals of Ansible

Ansible is, at its heart, a simple framework that pushes a small program called an Ansible module to target nodes. Modules are at the heart of Ansible and are responsible for performing all of the automation's hard work. The Ansible framework goes beyond this, however, and also includes plugins and dynamic inventory management, as well as tying all of this together with playbooks to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, network automation, and much more, as shown:

Ansible only needs to be installed on the management node; from there, it distributes the required modules over the network's transport layer (usually SSH or WinRM) to perform tasks and deletes them once the tasks are complete. In this way, Ansible retains its agentless architecture and does not clutter up your target...

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