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Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition

You're reading from Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition Automate configuration management and overcome deployment challenges with Ansible

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801818780

Length 540 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Configuration Management

Authors (2):

Jesse Keating

James Freeman

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Ansible Overview and Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: The System Architecture and Design of Ansible FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Migrating from Earlier Ansible Versions

4. Chapter 3: Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible

5. Chapter 4: Ansible and Windows – Not Just for Linux

6. Chapter 5: Infrastructure Management for Enterprises with AWX

7. Section 2: Writing and Troubleshooting Ansible Playbooks

8. Chapter 6: Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates

9. Chapter 7: Controlling Task Conditions

10. Chapter 8: Composing Reusable Ansible Content with Roles

11. Chapter 9: Troubleshooting Ansible

12. Chapter 10: Extending Ansible

13. Section 3: Orchestration with Ansible

14. Chapter 11: Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Deployments

15. Chapter 12: Infrastructure Provisioning

16. Chapter 13: Network Automation

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running Ansible from Windows

If you browse the official installation documentation for Ansible, you will find a variety of instructions for most mainstream Linux variants, Solaris, macOS, and FreeBSD. You will note, however, that there is no mention of Windows. There is a good reason for this – for those interested in the technical detail, Ansible makes extensive use of the POSIX fork() syscall in its operations, and no such call exists on Windows. POSIX compatibility projects, such as the venerable Cygwin, have attempted to implement fork() on Windows, but sometimes this does not work correctly even today. As a result, despite there being a viable Python implementation for Windows, Ansible cannot be run natively on this platform without the presence of this important syscall.

The good news is that, if you are running recent versions of Windows 10, or Windows Server 2016 or 2019, installing and running Ansible is now incredibly easy thanks to Windows Subsystem for Linux ...

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Authors (2)

James Freeman

James Freeman

James Freeman is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than a decade of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, open source, and AWS. As part of this work, he frequently introduces Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. In addition, he has co-authored five books and one video training course on Ansible, facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.

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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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