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Learning Ansible 2.7

You're reading from Learning Ansible 2.7 Automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789954333

Length 266 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Configuration Management

Author (1):

Fabio Alessandro Locati

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Creating a Web Server Using Ansible FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Ansible

3. Automating Simple Tasks

4. Section 2: Deploying Playbooks in a Production Environment

5. Scaling to Multiple Hosts

6. Handling Complex Deployment

7. Going Cloud

8. Getting Notification from Ansible

9. Section 3: Deploying an Application with Ansible

10. Creating a Custom Module

11. Debugging and Error Handling

12. Complex Environments

13. Section 4: Deploying an Application with Ansible

14. Introducing Ansible for Enterprises

15. Getting Started with AWX

16. Working with AWX Users, Permissions, and Organizations

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how to move Ansible outside the Unix world by looking at how to control Windows hosts. We then moved to Ansible Galaxy, where you can find many roles written by other people that you can simply reuse. Lastly, we touched on Ansible Tower, which is an open source incarnation of AWX. In the upcoming chapters, we are going to discuss more about AWX, from the installation process to running your first job.

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Authors (1)

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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