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You're reading from Learning Ansible 2 Learn everything you need to manage and handle your systems with ease with Ansible 2 using this comprehensive guide

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786464231

Length 266 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Configuration Management

Author (1):

Fabio Alessandro Locati

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support

1. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER

IT automation
What is Ansible?
Secure Shell (SSH)
Why Ansible?
Installing Ansible
Creating a test environment with QEMU and KVM
Version control system
Using Ansible with Git
Summary

2. Automating Simple Tasks

YAML
Hello Ansible
Working with playbooks
Ansible verbosity
Variables in playbooks
Creating the Ansible user
Configuring a basic server
Installing and configuring a web server
Publishing a website
Jinja2 templates
Summary

3. Scaling to Multiple Hosts

Working with inventory files
Working with variables
Working with dynamic inventory
Working with iterates in Ansible
Summary

4. Handling Complex Deployment

Working with the local_action feature
Delegating a task
Working with conditionals
Working with include
Working with handlers
Working with roles
Execution strategies
Tasks blocks
The Ansible template - Jinja filters
Security management
Summary

5. Going Cloud

Provisioning resources in the cloud
Amazon Web Service
DigitalOcean
Summary

6. Getting Notifications from Ansible

E-mails
XMPP
Slack
Rocket Chat
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Amazon Simple Notification Service
Nagios
Summary

7. Creating a Custom Module

Using Python modules
Using bash modules
Using Ruby modules
Testing modules
Summary

8. Debugging and Error Handling

The check mode
Indicating differences between files using --diff
Functional testing in Ansible
Functional testing using assert
Testing with tags
The --skip-tags
Managing exceptions
Trigger failure
Summary

9. Complex Environments

Code based on the Git branch
A single stable branch with multiple folders
Software distribution strategy
Preparing the environment
Deploying a web app with revision control systems
Deploying a web app with RPM packages
Building compiled software with RPM packaging
Deployment strategies
Optimizations
Summary

10. Introducing Ansible for Enterprises

Ansible on Windows
Ansible for networking devices
Ansible Galaxy
Ansible Tower
Summary

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how we can teach Ansible how to send notifications to other systems and/or people.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to create a module so that you can extend Ansible to perform any kind of task.

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