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Practical Ansible

You're reading from Practical Ansible Learn how to automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781805129974

Length 420 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Configuration Management

Authors (3):

Fabio Alessandro Locati

James Freeman

Daniel Oh

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Ansible

3. Chapter 2: Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible

4. Chapter 3: Defining Your Inventory

5. Chapter 4: Playbooks and Roles

6. Part 2:Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible

7. Chapter 5: Creating and Consuming Modules

8. Chapter 6: Creating and Consuming Collections

9. Chapter 7: Creating and Consuming Plugins

10. Chapter 8: Coding Best Practices

11. Chapter 9: Advanced Ansible Topics

12. Part 3:Using Ansible in an Enterprise

13. Chapter 10: Network Automation with Ansible

14. Chapter 11: Container and Cloud Management

15. Chapter 12: Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies

16. Chapter 13: Getting Started with Ansible Automation Controller

17. Chapter 14: Execution Environments

18. Assessments

19. Index

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Further reading

To find out about more configuration variables, go to https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#ansible-configuration-settings.

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Authors (3)

James Freeman

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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Daniel Oh

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

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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