You're reading from Ansible for Real-Life Automation A complete Ansible handbook filled with practical IT automation use cases

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235417

Length 480 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Gineesh Madapparambath

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Using Ansible as Your Automation Tool

2. Chapter 1: Ansible Automation – Introduction FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Starting with Simple Automation

4. Chapter 3: Automating Your Daily Jobs

5. Chapter 4: Exploring Collaboration in Automation Development

6. Part 2: Finding Use Cases and Integrations

7. Chapter 5: Expanding Your Automation Landscape

8. Chapter 6: Automating Microsoft Windows and Network Devices

9. Chapter 7: Managing Your Virtualization and Cloud Platforms

10. Chapter 8: Helping the Database Team with Automation

11. Chapter 9: Implementing Automation in a DevOps Workflow

12. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Using Ansible

13. Chapter 11: Managing Kubernetes Using Ansible

14. Chapter 12: Integrating Ansible with Your Tools

15. Chapter 13: Using Ansible for Secret Management

16. Part 3: Managing Your Automation Development Flow with Best Practices

17. Chapter 14: Keeping Automation Simple and Efficient

18. Chapter 15: Automating Non-Standard Platforms and Operations

19. Chapter 16: Ansible Automation Best Practices for Production

20. Index

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Ansible Automation – Introduction

Ansible is open source automation and orchestration software that can be used for automating most of your operations with IT infrastructure components including servers, storage, networks, and application platforms. Ansible is one of the most popular automation tools in the IT world now and has strong community support with more than 5,000 contributors around the world.

In this chapter we are going to cover the following topics:

What is Ansible? Where should I use this automation tool?
Deploying Ansible
Configuring your managed nodes

As of today, Ansible is only available on Linux/Unix platforms, but that doesn't mean you cannot use Ansible to automate other operating systems (OSs) or devices. It is possible to use Ansible to automate almost all components involved in the IT infrastructure, as there are thousands of supported modules available to support Ansible automation.