Learning Ansible 2 2E

Learn everything you need to manage and handle your systems with ease with Ansible 2 using this comprehensive guide

Fabio Alessandro Locati 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2016년 11월 21일 출간

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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.

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1: GETTING STARTED WITH ANSIBLE
2: AUTOMATING SIMPLE TASKS
3: SCALING TO MULTIPLE HOSTS
4: HANDLING COMPLEX DEPLOYMENT
5: GOING CLOUD
6: GETTING NOTIFICATIONS FROM ANSIBLE
7: CREATING A CUSTOM MODULE
8: DEBUGGING AND ERROR HANDLING
9: COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
10: INTRODUCING ANSIBLE FOR ENTERPRISES

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▶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.

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▶Editorial Review
The information technology sector is a fast-moving sector that always tries to accelerate. To keep up with this, companies need to be able to move quickly and iterate frequently. Until a few years back, this was mainly true for software, but now we start to see the necessity to change infrastructures at similar speed. Going forward, we will need to change the infrastructure we run our software on at the speed of the software itself.

In this scenario, many technologies, such as software-defined everything (storage, network, compute, what have you), will be key, but those technologies need to be managed in an equally scalable way, and that way will be using Ansible and similar products.

Ansible is highly relevant today since, differently from competing products, it is agentless, allowing faster deployments, more security, and better auditability.

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저자(글) Fabio Alessandro Locati

Fabio Alessandro Locati is a senior consultant at Red Hat, public speaker, author, and open source contributor. His main areas of expertise are Linux, security, cloud technologies, and automation. With more than 10 years of working experience in the field, he has experience in different IT roles, technologies, and languages. He has worked for many different companies, starting from a one-man company to huge companies such as Tech Data and Samsung. This has allowed him to consider various technologies from different points of view, helping him develop critical thinking and swiftly understand whether a particular technology is the right fit for a specific project. Since he is always looking for better technologies, he also tries new technologies to understand their advantages over the old ones as well as their maturity status. One of the most important things he evaluates about a technology is its internal security and the possibility of adding security through configuration or interaction with other technologies. In his work and to manage his own machines, he has used Ansible since 2013. He often gives talks about his work, the projects he helps with in his spare time, and his vision of the IT and security worlds. He is the author of the book OpenStack Cloud Security, Packt Publishing. In his spare time, he helps out on the Fedora Project as well as Wikimedia and Open Street Map. You can find more about him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiolocati/en and at https://fale.io/