This is an Ansible guidebook for beginner systems administrators. It aims to properly introduce Ansible as an automation and configuration management tool. Readers of the book should, by the end, master basic use of Ansible playbooks and modules by learning from real-life sample codes that demonstrate each module's functionality to help achieve infrastructure and task automation and orchestration. The book contains some extra advanced tips for those who want to go the extra mile and learn about and collaborate with the Ansible community.
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Ansible Quick Start Guide
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Overview of this book
Configuration Management (CM) tools help administrators reduce their workload. Ansible is one of the best Configuration Management tools, and can act as an orchestrator for managing other CMs. This book is the easiest way to learn how to use Ansible as an orchestrator and a Configuration Management tool. With this book, you will learn how to control and monitor computer and network infrastructures of any size,physical or virtual.
You will begin by learning about the Ansible client-server architecture. To get started, you will set up and configure an Ansible server. You will then go through the major features of Ansible: Playbook and Inventory. Then, we will look at Ansible systems and network modules.
You will then use Ansible to enable infrastructure automated configuration management, followed by best practices for using Ansible roles and community modules.
Finally, you will explore Ansible features such as Ansible Vault, Ansible Containers, and Ansible plugins.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
What is Ansible?
Ansible Setup and Configuration
Ansible Inventory and Playbook
Ansible Modules
Ansible Automated Infrastructure
Ansible Coding for Configuration Management
Ansible Galaxy and Community Roles
Ansible Advanced Features
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