▶Book Description
Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With Ansible, even complex tasks can be handled easier than before.
In this book, you will learn about the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible 2 by diving deeply into topics such as installation (Linux, BSD, and Windows Support), playbooks, modules, various testing strategies, provisioning, deployment, and orchestration. In this book, you will get accustomed with the new features of Ansible 2 such as cleaner architecture, task blocks, playbook parsing, new execution strategy plugins, and modules. You will also learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as AWS. The book ends with the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy, where you will learn to interact Ansible with different OSes to speed up your work to previously unseen levels
By the end of the book, you’ll able to leverage the Ansible parameters to create expeditious tasks for your organization by implementing the Ansible 2 techniques and paradigms.
▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Set up Ansible 2 and an Ansible 2 project in a future-proof way
⦁ Perform basic operations with Ansible 2 such as creating, copying, moving, changing, and deleting files, and creating and deleting users
⦁ Deploy complete cloud environments using Ansible 2 on AWS and DigitalOcean
⦁ Explore complex operations with Ansible 2 (Ansible vault, e-mails, and Nagios)
⦁ Develop and test Ansible playbooks
⦁ Write a custom module and test it
▶Key Features
⦁ Simplify the automation of applications and systems using the newest version of Ansible
⦁ Get acquainted with fundamentals of Ansible such as playbooks, modules, and various testing strategies
⦁ A comprehensive, learning guide that provides you with great skills to automate your organization’s infrastructure using Ansible 2
▶Who This Book Is For
The book is for sys admins who want to automate their organization’s infrastructure using Ansible 2. No prior knowledge of Ansible is required.
▶Style and approach
This book is a step-by-step learning guide on the all new Ansible 2, which is an ideal configuration management tool.
▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Getting Started with Ansible, explains how to install Ansible.
⦁ Chapter 2, Automating Simple Tasks, explains how to create simple playbooks that will allow you to automate some simple tasks that you already perform on a daily basis.
⦁ Chapter 3, Scaling to Multiple Hosts, explains how to handle multiple hosts in Ansible in an easy-to-scale way.
⦁ Chapter 4, Handling Complex Deployment, explains how to create deployments that have multiple phases as well as multiple machines.
⦁ Chapter 5, Going Cloud, explains how Ansible can integrate with various cloud offering and how it can simplify your life, managing the cloud for you.
⦁ Chapter 6, Getting Notifications from Ansible, explains how to set up Ansible to return valuable information to you and other stakeholders.
⦁ Chapter 7, Creating a Custom Module, explains how to create a custom module to leverage the freedom Ansible gives you.
⦁ Chapter 8, Debugging and Error Handling, explains how to debug and test Ansible to ensure that your playbooks will always work.
⦁ Chapter 9, Complex Environments, explains how to manage multiple tiers, multiple environments, and deployments with Ansible.
⦁ Chapter 10, Introducing Ansible for Enterprises, explains how to manage Windows nodes from Ansible as well as how to leverage Ansible Galaxy and Ansible Tower to maximize your productivity.
