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Practical Ansible

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2023
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ISBN-13 9781805129974
Length 420 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Fabio Alessandro Locati Fabio Alessandro Locati
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James Freeman James Freeman
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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 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Getting Started with Ansible Automation Controller

Ansible is very powerful, but it does require the user to use the CLI. In some situations, this is not the best option, such as in cases where you need to trigger an Ansible job from another job (where APIs would be better) or in cases where the person that should trigger a job should only be able to trigger that specific job. For these cases, AWX and Ansible Automation Controller are the best options to use.

The only differences between AWX and Ansible Automation Controller are that AWX is the upstream and open source version, while Ansible Automation Controller is the Red Hat and downstream component that is officially supported as part of the Ansible Automation Platform but for a price, and also the delivery method. AWX is available as a Kubernetes Operator that can run on any Kubernetes cluster, while Ansible Automation Controller is either installable via the Kubernetes Operator on a Red Hat OpenShift installation or on an...

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