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Mastering Ansible, Second Edition

You're reading from Mastering Ansible, Second Edition Master the ins and outs of advanced operations with Ansible

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125681

Length 310 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Configuration Management

Author (1):

Jesse Keating

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. System Architecture and Design of Ansible

2. Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible FREE CHAPTER

3. Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates

4. Controlling Task Conditions

5. Composing Reusable Ansible Content with Roles

6. Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Deployments

7. Troubleshooting Ansible

8. Extending Ansible

9. Infrastructure Provisioning

Previewing of Ansible container

Ansible container is a set of tools that build upon concepts introduced earlier in this chapter to provide a comprehensive workflow for container development, testing, and deployment. It is currently a tech preview, under active development. As it is a preview, the interfaces provided may change quickly.

Ansible container does not get installed with Ansible at the time of writing, and must be installed separately. It can be installed from pypi as the package name ansible-container, or installed from the source repository (https://github.com/ansible/ansible-container.git).

With Ansible container, one can define one or more services to containerize. These are defined in a YAML file that closely follows the Docker compose version 1 schema (support version 2 schema will be in the next release of Ansible container). Each service defined becomes a container, and is exposed as an Ansible host. These hosts are used by a playbook file to perform all the necessary configuration...

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Authors (1)

Keating

Keating

Jesse Keating is an accomplished Ansible user, contributor, and presenter. He has been an active member of the Linux and open source community for over 15 years. He has firsthand experience involving a variety of IT activities, software development, and large-scale system administration. He has presented at numerous conferences and meetups, and has written many articles on a variety of topics.

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