You're reading from Learn Ansible Automate your cloud infrastructure, security configuration, and application deployment with Ansible

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835088913

Length 414 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Russ McKendrick

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introducing, Installing, and Running Ansible FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Installing and Running Ansible

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Ansible Galaxy

4. Chapter 3: The Ansible Commands

5. Part 2: Deploying Applications

6. Chapter 4: Deploying a LAMP Stack

7. Chapter 5: Deploying WordPress

8. Chapter 6: Targeting Multiple Distributions

9. Chapter 7: Ansible Windows Modules

10. Part 3: Network and Cloud Automation

11. Chapter 8: Ansible Network Modules

12. Chapter 9: Moving to the Cloud

13. Chapter 10: Building Out a Cloud Network

14. Chapter 11: Highly Available Cloud Deployments

15. Chapter 12: Building Out a VMware Deployment

16. Part 4: Ansible Workflows

17. Chapter 13: Scanning Your Ansible Playbooks

18. Chapter 14: Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible

19. Chapter 15: Using Ansible with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps

20. Chapter 16: Introducing Ansible AWX and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

21. Chapter 17: Next Steps with Ansible

22. Index

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Installing and Running Ansible

Welcome to this, our first chapter in the second edition of Learn Ansible. In this chapter, we will look at a few topics to introduce you to Ansible; these topics will familiarize you with the basics of what Ansible is and give you a few different use cases.

By the end of the chapter, you will have gotten hands-on with Ansible and covered the following:

Who is behind Ansible?
The differences between Ansible and other tools
The problem Ansible solves
How to install Ansible on macOS and Linux
Running Ansible on Windows 11 using the Windows Subsystem for Linux
Launching a test virtual machine
An introduction to playbooks

Before we start talking about Ansible, let’s quickly discuss my background, how I came to be writing a book about Ansible, and what you will need to install and run Ansible on your system.