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Learning Ansible 2.7

Learning Ansible 2.7

By : Fabio Alessandro Locati
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Learning Ansible 2.7

Learning Ansible 2.7

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By: Fabio Alessandro Locati

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Creating a Web Server Using Ansible
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Section 2: Deploying Playbooks in a Production Environment
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Section 3: Deploying an Application with Ansible
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Section 4: Deploying an Application with Ansible

Optimizations

Sometimes, Ansible feels slow, mainly if you have a very long list of tasks to execute and/or if you have a huge amount of machines. There are multiple reasons for this, and ways to avoid it, and we are going to look at three of those ways.

Pipelining

One of the reasons Ansible is slow by default is that for every module execution and for every host, Ansible will perform the following actions:

  • SSH handshake
  • Execute the task
  • Close the SSH connection

As you can see, this means that if you have 10 tasks to be executed on a single remote server, Ansible will open (and close) the connection 10 times. Since the SSH protocol is an encrypted protocol, this makes the SSH handshake an even longer process, since the two...

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