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

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235417

Length 480 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Gineesh Madapparambath

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

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In this section, you will use the well-known Content Management System (CMS) application stack known as WordPress (https://wordpress.org). The WordPress application is based on multiple application stacks, including PHP, a web server, and a database. The WordPress application is available as a container image (https://hub.docker.com/_/wordpress). For the database, we will deploy another container using MariaDB (https://hub.docker.com/_/mariadb).

Please refer to the Chapter-10/deploy-wordpress-on-docker.yaml file to see the Ansible playbook for deploying the WordPress CMS using Ansible. Follow these steps:

We declared the essential parameters on top of the playbook, as shown in the following screenshot. Remember to store sensitive data such as database usernames and passwords using Ansible Vault (or Credential in Ansible Automation Controller) or other secret management services. These variables are then passed to the container...