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You're reading from Mastering Ansible Effectively automate configuration management and deployment challenges with Ansible 2.7

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789951547

Length 412 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Configuration Management

Authors (2):

Jesse Keating

James Freeman

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Ansible Overview and Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. The System Architecture and Design of Ansible

3. Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible

4. Ansible and Windows - Not Just for Linux

5. Infrastructure Management for Enterprises with AWX

6. Section 2: Writing and Troubleshooting Ansible Playbooks

7. Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates

8. Controlling Task Conditions

9. Composing Reusable Ansible Content with Roles

10. Troubleshooting Ansible

11. Extending Ansible

12. Section 3: Orchestration with Ansible

13. Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Deployments

14. Infrastructure Provisioning

15. Network Automation

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Section 1: Ansible Overview and Fundamentals

In this section, we will explore the fundamentals of how Ansible works and establish a sound basis on which to develop playbooks and workflows.

The following chapters are included in this section:

Chapter 1, The System Architecture and Design of Ansible

Chapter 2, Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible

Chapter 3, Ansible and Windows – Not Just for Linux

Chapter 4, Infrastructure Management for Enterprises with AWX

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Authors (2)

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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