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Mastering Ansible: Effectively automate configuration management and deployment challenges with Ansible 2.7 , Third Edition

James Freeman

Keating

$20.98 ~~$29.99~~

3.4 (5 Ratings)

eBook Mar 2019 412 pages 3rd Edition

James Freeman

Keating

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3.4 (5 Ratings)

eBook Mar 2019 412 pages 3rd Edition

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Tackle complex automation challenges with the newly added features in Ansible 2.7

Description

Automation is essential for success in the modern world of DevOps. Ansible provides a simple, yet powerful, automation engine for tackling complex automation challenges. This book will take you on a journey that will help you exploit the latest version's advanced features to help you increase efficiency and accomplish complex orchestrations. This book will help you understand how Ansible 2.7 works at a fundamental level and will also teach you to leverage its advanced capabilities. Throughout this book, you will learn how to encrypt Ansible content at rest and decrypt data at runtime. Next, this book will act as an ideal resource to help you master the advanced features and capabilities required to tackle complex automation challenges. Later, it will walk you through workflows, use cases, orchestrations, troubleshooting, and Ansible extensions. Lastly, you will examine and debug Ansible operations, helping you to understand and resolve issues. By the end of the book, you will be able to unlock the true power of the Ansible automation engine and tackle complex, real- world actions with ease.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Ansible developers and operators who have an understanding of its core elements and applications but are now looking to enhance their skills in applying automation using Ansible.

What you will learn

Gain an in-depth understanding of how Ansible works under the hood
Fully automate Ansible playbook executions with encrypted data
Access and manipulate variable data within playbooks
Use blocks to perform failure recovery or cleanup
Explore the Playbook debugger and the Ansible Console
Troubleshoot unexpected behavior effectively
Work with cloud infrastructure providers and container systems
Develop custom modules, plugins, and dynamic inventory sources

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Product Details

Publication date : Mar 25, 2019

Length: 412 pages

Edition : 3rd

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781789959000

Vendor :

Red Hat

Category :

Cloud & Networking

Concepts :

Configuration Management

Tools :

Ansible

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16 Chapters

Section 1: Ansible Overview and Fundamentals

The System Architecture and Design of Ansible

Technical requirements

Ansible version and configuration

Inventory parsing and data sources

Playbook parsing

Module transport and execution

Variable types and location

Accessing external data

Variable precedence

Summary

Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible

Technical requirements

Encrypting data at rest

Mixing encrypted data with plain YAML

Protecting secrets while operating

Summary

Ansible and Windows - Not Just for Linux

Technical requirements

Running Ansible from Windows

Setting up Windows hosts for Ansible control

Handling Windows authentication and encryption

Automating Windows tasks with Ansible

Summary

Infrastructure Management for Enterprises with AWX

Technical requirements

Getting AWX up and running

Integrating AWX with your first playbook

Going beyond the basics

Summary

Section 2: Writing and Troubleshooting Ansible Playbooks

Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates

Technical requirements

Controlling Task Conditions

Technical requirements

Defining a failure

Defining a change

Error recovery

Iterative tasks with loops

Summary

Composing Reusable Ansible Content with Roles

Technical requirements

Task, handler, variable, and playbook inclusion concepts

Roles

Summary

Troubleshooting Ansible

Technical requirements

Playbook logging and verbosity

Variable introspection

Debugging code execution

Summary

Extending Ansible

Technical requirements

Developing modules

Developing plugins

Developing dynamic inventory plugins

Contributing to the Ansible project

Summary

Section 3: Orchestration with Ansible

Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Deployments

Technical requirements

In-place upgrades

Expanding and contracting

Failing fast

Minimizing disruptions

Serializing single tasks

Summary

Infrastructure Provisioning

Technical requirements

Managing cloud infrastructures

Managing a public cloud infrastructure

Interacting with Docker containers

Ansible Container

Summary

Network Automation

Technical requirements

Ansible for network manage ment

Handling multiple device types

Configuring Cumulus Networks switches with Ansible

Summary

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JP Jan 25, 2020

Excellent

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Dan Pirvanescu Feb 05, 2022

A very good book. Good explanations, good examples, complete. Anyway requires little effort to adapt to the new release of Ansible, but works. I recommend it. I just succeeded the Cisco CCNA exam and helped me preparing the CCNP.

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Jeff Jun 20, 2020

For what I have read so far, it's been great. But, I keep running into "Beyond the scope of this book". It's MASTERING Ansible. When would be a better time to put the information in the book ?Mastering Ansible...The stuff we felt that was beyond the other book.

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BJ Mar 13, 2020

While I need to read it, others are first

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Pyers Jul 07, 2020

This might be the best book on Ansible ever written but I can't tell because the production values are so poor. A lot of the book consists of screen caps that are reproduced in black and white. Fine except that the images come out so poorly. Text is fuzzy and unclear, light grey on a dark grey background making it very difficult to read and even more to follow. It might be a superb book but I just cannot tell.

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About the authors

James Freeman

James Freeman is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than a decade of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, open source, and AWS. As part of this work, he frequently introduces Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. In addition, he has co-authored five books and one video training course on Ansible, facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.

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Keating

Jesse Keating is an accomplished Ansible user, contributor, and presenter. He has been an active member of the Linux and open source community for over 15 years. He has firsthand experience involving a variety of IT activities, software development, and large-scale system administration. He has presented at numerous conferences and meetups, and has written many articles on a variety of topics.

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