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Ansible for Real-Life Automation

You're reading from   Ansible for Real-Life Automation A complete Ansible handbook filled with practical IT automation use cases

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Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235417
Length 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gineesh Madapparambath brings over 15 years of IT service management and consultancy expertise, specializing in infrastructure and automation projects. He's adept at crafting automation solutions using Ansible, showcased in his book "Ansible for Real-Life Automation." Gineesh excels in coordinating global data center infrastructure deployments across classic, private, and public cloud environments. With roles spanning from systems engineer to content author, his cross-cultural experience ensures seamless project execution and infrastructure design.
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Preface 1. Part 1: Using Ansible as Your Automation Tool
2. Chapter 1: Ansible Automation – Introduction FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Starting with Simple Automation 4. Chapter 3: Automating Your Daily Jobs 5. Chapter 4: Exploring Collaboration in Automation Development 6. Part 2: Finding Use Cases and Integrations
7. Chapter 5: Expanding Your Automation Landscape 8. Chapter 6: Automating Microsoft Windows and Network Devices 9. Chapter 7: Managing Your Virtualization and Cloud Platforms 10. Chapter 8: Helping the Database Team with Automation 11. Chapter 9: Implementing Automation in a DevOps Workflow 12. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Using Ansible 13. Chapter 11: Managing Kubernetes Using Ansible 14. Chapter 12: Integrating Ansible with Your Tools 15. Chapter 13: Using Ansible for Secret Management 16. Part 3: Managing Your Automation Development Flow with Best Practices
17. Chapter 14: Keeping Automation Simple and Efficient 18. Chapter 15: Automating Non-Standard Platforms and Operations 19. Chapter 16: Ansible Automation Best Practices for Production 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Automating a password reset using ITSM and Ansible

With the help of ITSM tools and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (or community Ansible AWX), it is possible to implement zero-touch automation use cases such as database user password resets, database provisioning, and so on. Users will interact with the ITSM tool, and the tool will interact with Ansible Automation Platform to implement the task implementation, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 8.34 – ITSM and Ansible Automation Platform integration for database operations

This programmatic automation is one of the best features of Ansible and helps organizations scale their automation landscape by integrating with existing tools and software.

Use customized forms or ticketing systems in the ITSM tool, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.35 – Jira ticket and its details

The ITSM tool, such as Jira or ServiceNow, can also be configured with custom...

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Gineesh Madapparambath brings over 15 years of IT service management and consultancy expertise, specializing in infrastructure and automation projects. He's adept at crafting automation solutions using Ansible, showcased in his book "Ansible for Real-Life Automation." Gineesh excels in coordinating global data center infrastructure deployments across classic, private, and public cloud environments. With roles spanning from systems engineer to content author, his cross-cultural experience ensures seamless project execution and infrastructure design.
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