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Learning Ansible 2.7: Automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7 , Third Edition

Fabio Alessandro Locati

€15.99 ~~€23.99~~

2.7 (3 Ratings)

eBook Apr 2019 266 pages 3rd Edition

Fabio Alessandro Locati

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2.7 (3 Ratings)

eBook Apr 2019 266 pages 3rd Edition

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Get familiar with the fundamentals of Ansible 2.7
Understand how to use Ansible Tower to scale your IT automation
Gain insights into how to develop and test Ansible playbooks

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This beginner-level book is for system administrators who want to automate their organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7. No prior knowledge of Ansible is required

What you will learn

Create a web server using Ansible
Write a custom module and test it
Deploy playbooks in the production environment
Troubleshoot networks using Ansible
Use Ansible Galaxy and Ansible Tower during deployment
Deploy an application with Ansible on AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean

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Publication date : Apr 30, 2019

Length: 266 pages

Edition : 3rd

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781789950007

Vendor :

Red Hat

Category :

Cloud & Networking

Concepts :

Configuration Management

Tools :

Ansible

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17 Chapters

Section 1: Creating a Web Server Using Ansible

Getting Started with Ansible

Technical requirements

Creating a test environment with Vagrant

Version control systems

Using Ansible with Git

Summary

Automating Simple Tasks

Technical Requirement

YAML

Working with playbooks

Ansible verbosity

Variables in playbooks

Creating the Ansible user

Configuring a basic server

Installing and configuring a web server

Publishing a website

Jinja2 templates

Summary

Section 2: Deploying Playbooks in a Production Environment

Scaling to Multiple Hosts

Technical requirements

Working with inventory files

Working with variables

Summary

Handling Complex Deployment

Technical requirements

Working with the local_action feature

Delegating a task

Working with conditionals

Working with include

Working with handlers

Working with roles

Organizing a project

Anatomy of a role

Transforming your playbooks in a full Ansible project

Transforming a playbook into a role

Helper files

Transforming the webserver role

Handlers in roles

Execution strategies

The Ansible template – Jinja filters

Formatting data using filters

Defaulting undefined variables

Security management

Using Ansible Vault

Vaults and playbooks

Encrypting user passwords

Hiding passwords

Using no_log

Summary

Going Cloud

Technical requirements

Provisioning resources in the cloud

Provisioning machines in AWS

Provisioning machines in DigitalOcean

Provisioning machines in Azure

Summary

Getting Notification from Ansible

Technical requirements

Sending emails with Ansible

Amazon Simple Notification Service

Nagios

Summary

Section 3: Deploying an Application with Ansible

Creating a Custom Module

Prerequisite

Using Python to write modules

Debugging and Error Handling

Technical requirements

Syntax checking

The check mode

Indicating differences between files using --diff

Functional testing in Ansible

Complex Environments

Technical requirements

Code based on the Git branch

Software distribution strategy

Preparing the environment

Deploying a web app with a revision control system

Deploying a web app with RPM packages

Building compiled software with RPM packaging

Deployment strategies

Optimizations

Summary

Section 4: Deploying an Application with Ansible

Introducing Ansible for Enterprises

Technical requirements

Ansible on Windows

Ansible Galaxy

Ansible Tower and AWX

Summary

Getting Started with AWX

Technical requirements

Setting up AWX

Creating new AWX projects

Using AWX inventories

Understanding AWX job templates

Using AWX jobs

Summary

Working with AWX Users, Permissions, and Organizations

Technical requirements

AWX users and permissions

AWX organizations

Summary

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2.7

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4 star 0%

3 star 0%

2 star 33.3%

1 star 33.3%

Mike R. Mar 14, 2020

Comprehensive yet simple

Amazon Verified review

SirM Aug 31, 2019

One can tell from introduction going forward the author did not in anyway rely much on readers feedback from previous edition thus you have the same introductory formula in writing style applied. The author assumes the readers somehow have an ideal setup like he does whereby when using vagrant you have ssh issues, does not indicate whether he uses global or local inventory file and thus you have to fill-in the gaps via google search. Literally the material is hard to digest thus a greater balance of understanding will depend on the user investing their time on official ansible docs. A half baked effort that is not engaging, could have been better.

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Sp3c1 May 17, 2020

I bought the book since this is fairly recent, ansible 2.9 is the current version. I first considered ansible up and running from O'Reilly Press but that book is a little bit aged and reviews said that it great but it should be updated to a new edition soon. This is why I landed on this book. Unfortunately, I feel I learned not a whole lot from this book. The Author is giving examples but is failing to explain these. Or I was unable to follow as good. Also, the author is half helping with the vagrant setup, It took me a couple of hours to have a working environment with vagrant since I had to research a whole bunch. I would have liked a better thought through examples. In fact, after this book, I have read the extract from ansible up and running which is containing the first two chapters. Which explained vagrant in a far better way and how I can get started.I am missing for whom this book is written because I feel the examples are really basic but the missing of explanations I would assume it's for more advanced users. I guess this book is missing some kind of clear concept. Sometimes the Author is touching onto topics that seem completely out of place at that moment.I recently purchased jeff Geerling's Ansible for DevOps ebook which is regularly updated so it is really current, and it fits me a lot more. Since the Author is really clear about what he is trying to achieve.Unfortunately, I missed the date to give the kindle version back of this book.

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About the author

Fabio Alessandro Locati

Fabio Alessandro Locati – commonly known as Fale – is an EMEA associate principal solutions architect at Red Hat, a public speaker, an author, and an open source contributor. His primary areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale has more than 15 years of working experience in IT, with many of them spent consulting for various organizations, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Fale has written Learning Ansible 2.7, Learning Ansible 2, and OpenStack Cloud Security, and has been part of the review process of multiple books.

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