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Practical Ansible 2

Practical Ansible 2

By : Daniel Oh, Oh Se Young, James Freeman, Fabio Alessandro Locati
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Practical Ansible 2

Practical Ansible 2

3.8 (5)
By: Daniel Oh, Oh Se Young, James Freeman, Fabio Alessandro Locati

Overview of this book

Ansible enables you to automate software provisioning, configuration management, and application roll-outs, and can be used as a deployment and orchestration tool. While Ansible provides simple yet powerful features to automate multi-layer environments using agentless communication, it can also solve other critical IT challenges, such as ensuring continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) with zero downtime. In this book, you'll work with Ansible 2.9 and learn to solve complex issues quickly with the help of task-oriented scenarios. You'll start by installing and configuring Ansible on Linux and macOS to automate monotonous and repetitive IT tasks and get to grips with concepts such as playbooks, inventories, and network modules. As you progress, you'll gain insight into the YAML syntax and learn how to port between Ansible versions. In addition to this, you'll also understand how Ansible enables you to orchestrate multi-layer environments such as networks, containers, and the cloud. By the end of this Ansible book, you'll be well - versed in writing playbooks and other related Ansible code to overcome just about all of your IT challenges, from infrastructure-as-code provisioning to application deployments, and even handling the mundane day-to-day maintenance tasks that take up so much valuable time.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
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Section 2: Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
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Section 3: Using Ansible in an Enterprise

Testing with a playbook

One of the most complex things in the IT field is not creating software and systems, but debugging them when they have problems. Ansible is not an exception. No matter how good you are at creating Ansible playbooks, sooner or later, you'll find yourself debugging a playbook that is not behaving as you thought it would.

The simplest way of performing basic tests is to print out the values of variables during execution. Let's learn how to do this with Ansible, as follows:

  1. First of all, we need a playbook called debug.yaml with the following content:
---
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- shell: /usr/bin/uptime
register: result
- debug:
var: result
  1. Run it with the following command:
$ ansible-playbook debug.yaml

You will receive an output similar to the following:

PLAY [localhost] **************************************************...

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