Learning Ansible 2.7: Automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7, 3rd Edition - Couverture souple

Locati, Fabio Alessandro

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1789954339 ISBN 13 : 9781789954333

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Use Ansible to configure your systems, deploy software, and orchestrate advanced IT tasks

Key Features

• Get familiar with the fundamentals of Ansible 2.7
• Understand how to use Ansible Tower to scale your IT automation
• Gain insights into how to develop and test Ansible playbooks

Book Description

Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With the release of Ansible 2.7, even complex tasks can be handled much more easily than before.

Learning Ansible 2.7 will help you take your first steps toward understanding the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible by introducing you to topics such as playbooks, modules, and the installation of Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), and Windows support. In addition to this, you will focus on various testing strategies, deployment, and orchestration to build on your knowledge. The book will then help you get accustomed to features including cleaner architecture, task blocks, and playbook parsing, which can help you to streamline automation processes. Next, you will learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) before gaining insights into the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy. This will help you to use Ansible to interact with different operating systems and improve your working efficiency.

By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the Ansible skills you need to automate complex tasks for your organization.

What you will learn

• Create a web server using Ansible
• Write a custom module and test it
• Deploy playbooks in the production environment
• Troubleshoot networks using Ansible
• Use Ansible Galaxy and Ansible Tower during deployment
• Deploy an application with Ansible on AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean

Who this book is for

This beginner-level book is for system administrators who want to automate their organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7. No prior knowledge of Ansible is required

Table of Contents

1. Getting started with Ansible
2. Automating Simple Tasks
3. Scaling to multiple hosts
4. Handling complex deployment
5. Going cloud
6. Getting notification from Ansible
7. Creating a custom module
8. Debugging and error handling
9. Complex Environments
10. Introducing Ansible for Enterprises
11. Getting started with AWX
12. Working with AWX Users, Permissions, and Organizations

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789954339
• ISBN 13: 9781789954333
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Allemagne