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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789807462

Length 410 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (4):

Fabio Alessandro Locati

James Freeman

Daniel Oh

Oh Se Young

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

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Questions

On which operating systems can you install Ansible? (Multiple correct answers)

A) Ubuntu

B) Fedora

C) Windows 2019 server

D) HP-UX

E) Mainframe

Which protocol does Ansible use to connect the remote machine for running tasks?

A) HTTP

B) HTTPS

C) SSH

D) TCP

E) UDP

To execute a specific module in the Ansible ad hoc command line, you need to use the -m option.

A) True

B) False

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Authors (4)

Oh Se Young

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Daniel Oh

Daniel Oh is a Java Champion and senior principal developer advocate at Red Hat. He works to evangelize building cloud-native microservices and serverless functions with cloud-native runtimes to developers. He also continues to contribute to various open source cloud projects and ecosystems as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ambassador to accelerate hybrid cloud platform adoption in a variety of enterprises. Daniel also speaks at technical seminars, workshops, and meetups to elaborate on new emerging technologies for enterprise developers, SREs, platform engineers, and DevOps teams.

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Fabio Alessandro Locati

Fabio Alessandro Locati – commonly known as Fale – is an EMEA associate principal solutions architect at Red Hat, a public speaker, an author, and an open source contributor. His primary areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale has more than 15 years of working experience in IT, with many of them spent consulting for various organizations, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Fale has written Learning Ansible 2.7, Learning Ansible 2, and OpenStack Cloud Security, and has been part of the review process of multiple books.

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James Freeman

James Freeman is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than a decade of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, open source, and AWS. As part of this work, he frequently introduces Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. In addition, he has co-authored five books and one video training course on Ansible, facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.

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