Summary

In this chapter, we discovered some interesting and unique ways to integrate the Ansible automation system with Docker. We learned that these two seemingly redundant technologies can be combined to provide a robust automation implementation that scales very well.

We also talked about how to inversely leverage Ansible playbook tasks to create, update, delete, and manage containers. Then, we covered how to attach and remove networking from these containers. You learned that even though these implementations might have looked difficult at first, they proved to be quite easy actually.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at how to extend Ansible and create custom modules. We will educate you on how to use Python to extend Ansible and create custom modules that integrate with unique specific technology stacks. This will be done by providing a set of tutorials that teach you how to write and release custom Ansible modules. This chapter will teach you how to read input, manage facts,...