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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Expanding Your Automation Landscape

It is important to find and apply automation at the right place and at the right level. Usually, when searching for automation use cases, people make mistakes by automating the inappropriate tasks and end up wasting money, effort, and time. This is the reason why we need to analyze the environment and day-to-day tasks and find the best tasks as automation candidates. We can use your statistical data such as event tickets, customer change requests, and project tasks to find this information.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

Finding your automation use cases in your day-to-day work
Automation feasibility and usability
Involving teams in the automation journey
The Ansible dynamic inventory

We will start with standard methods to analyze the tasks to find the highest number of tasks and check the feasibility of automation. We will explore the integration opportunities between IT service management...