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Practical Ansible - Second Edition

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Product type Book

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805129974

Pages 420 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Configuration Management

Authors (3):

James Freeman

Fabio Alessandro Locati

Daniel Oh

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible

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

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Getting Started with Ansible

Ansible enables you to easily deploy applications and systems consistently and repeatably using native communication protocols such as SSH and WinRM. As a result, Ansible is agentless and so requires nothing to be installed on the managed systems (except for Python, which, these days, is present on most systems). As a result, it enables you to build a simple yet robust automation platform for your environment.

Ansible is straightforward to install and also comes packaged for many modern systems. Its architecture is serverless as well as agentless, so it has a minimal footprint. You can choose to run it from a central server or your own laptop—the choice is entirely yours. You can manage anything from a single host to hundreds of thousands of remote hosts from one Ansible control machine. All remote machines can be managed by Ansible, and with sufficient playbooks created, you may never have to log in to any of these machines individually again...

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Authors (3)

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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Fabio Alessandro Locati

Fabio Alessandro Locati – commonly known as Fale – is an EMEA associate principal solutions architect at Red Hat, a public speaker, an author, and an open source contributor. His primary areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale has more than 15 years of working experience in IT, with many of them spent consulting for various organizations, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Fale has written Learning Ansible 2.7, Learning Ansible 2, and OpenStack Cloud Security, and has been part of the review process of multiple books.

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Daniel Oh

Daniel Oh is a principal technical marketing manager at Red Hat. He provides runtimes, frameworks, fast data access, and high-performance messaging in flexible, easy-to-use, cost-effective, open, and collaborative ways. He's also a CNCF ambassador and DevOps Institute ambassador who evangelizes how to design and develop cloud-native serverless microservices and deploy them to multi/hybrid cloud-native platforms based on CNCF projects. Daniel loves to share his developer experiences with DevOps folks in terms of how to evolve traditional microservices to cloud-native, event-driven, and serverless applications via technical workshops, brown bag sessions, hackathons, and hands-on labs across regions at many international conferences.

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