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Ansible for Real-Life Automation

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235417
Length 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gineesh Madapparambath Gineesh Madapparambath
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the enterprise automation solution called Red Hat AAP. First, you learned about the benefits of using AAP and its features. You also learned about the different components of AAP, such as its execution environment, automation controller, automation mesh, and Automation Hub.

After that, you learned more about the automation controller by creating different resources such as organizations, projects, inventories, managed nodes and groups, credential job templates with survey forms and extra variables, and more. You also learned how to integrate the Jenkins CI/CD tool with Red Hat AAP to trigger the jobs automatically as part of the build and deployment pipeline.

Finally, you explored the notification options in the automation controller and tested them with different types of notifications such as email and Slack. All this knowledge will help you implement and manage automation using AAP and integrate AAP with different tools in your environment...

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