Ansible for Real-Life Automation A Complete Ansible Handbook Filled with Practical IT Automation Use Cases
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Get ready to leverage the power of Ansible's wide applicability to automate and manage IT infrastructure with Ansible for Real-Life Automation. This book will guide you in setting up and managing the free and open source automation tool and remote-managed nodes in the production and dev/staging environments. Starting with its installation and deployment, you'll learn automation using simple use cases in your workplace. You'll go beyond just Linux machines to use Ansible to automate Microsoft Windows machines, network devices, and private and public cloud platforms such as VMWare, AWS, and GCP. As you progress through the chapters, you'll integrate Ansible into your DevOps workflow and deal with application container management and container platforms such as Kubernetes. This Ansible book also contains a detailed introduction to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to help you get up to speed with Red Hat AAP and integration with CI/CD and ITSM. What's more, you'll implement efficient automation solutions while learning best practices and methods to secure sensitive data using Ansible Vault and alternatives to automate non-supported platforms and operations using raw commands, command modules, and REST API calls. By the end of this book, you'll be proficient in identifying and developing real-life automation use cases using Ansible.
Further reading -- Chapter 3: Automating Your Daily Jobs -- Technical requirements -- Using Ansible to collect server details -- Ansible roles -- Ansible Jinja2 templates -- Collecting system information -- System scanning and remediation using Ansible -- Ansible --extra-vars -- Automated weekly system reboot using Ansible -- Automating notifications -- Encrypting sensitive data using Ansible Vault -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Exploring Collaboration in Automation Development -- Technical requirements -- The importance of version control in IT automation
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Get ready to leverage the power of Ansible's wide applicability to automate and manage IT infrastructure with Ansible for Real-Life Automation. This book will guide you in setting up and managing the free and open source automation tool and remote-managed nodes in the production and dev/staging environments. Starting with its installation and deployment, you'll learn automation using simple use cases in your workplace. You'll go beyond just Linux machines to use Ansible to automate Microsoft Windows machines, network devices, and private and public cloud platforms such as VMWare, AWS, and GCP. As you progress through the chapters, you'll integrate Ansible into your DevOps workflow and deal with application container management and container platforms such as Kubernetes. This Ansible book also contains a detailed introduction to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to help you get up to speed with Red Hat AAP and integration with CI/CD and ITSM. What's more, you'll implement efficient automation solutions while learning best practices and methods to secure sensitive data using Ansible Vault and alternatives to automate non-supported platforms and operations using raw commands, command modules, and REST API calls. By the end of this book, you'll be proficient in identifying and developing real-life automation use cases using Ansible.
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Further reading -- Chapter 3: Automating Your Daily Jobs -- Technical requirements -- Using Ansible to collect server details -- Ansible roles -- Ansible Jinja2 templates -- Collecting system information -- System scanning and remediation using Ansible -- Ansible --extra-vars -- Automated weekly system reboot using Ansible -- Automating notifications -- Encrypting sensitive data using Ansible Vault -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Exploring Collaboration in Automation Development -- Technical requirements -- The importance of version control in IT automation
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Using Ansible as Your Automation Tool
Chapter 1: Ansible Automation
Introduction
Technical requirements
Hello engineers!
What is Ansible? Where should I use this tool?
Prerequisites
Ansible control node requirements
Ansible managed node requirements
Ansible is agentless
Ansible architecture
Ansible inventory
Ansible plugins
Ansible modules
Ansible content collections
Ansible playbook
Ansible use cases
Installing Ansible
Verify dependencies
Installing Ansible using the package manager
Installing Ansible using Python pip
Deploying Ansible
Creating an Ansible inventory
Configuring your managed nodes
Setting up SSH key-based authentication
Multiple users and credentials
Ansible ad hoc commands
Installing a package using Ansible
Summary
Further reading
Chapter 2: Starting with Simple Automation
Technical requirements
Identifying manual tasks to be automated
Finding the Ansible modules to use
Configuring your text editor for Ansible
Connecting to remote nodes
Selecting a Git server
Where should I keep automation artifacts?
Ansible and Git repositories
best practices
Managing automation content in a Git server
Setting up a GitHub account
Creating your first Git repository
Installing Git on a local machine
Configuring SSH keys in GitHub
Adding content to the Git repository
Collaboration is the key to automation
Using Git branching
Implementing Git branching
Summary
Further reading
Part 2: Finding Use Cases and Integrations
Chapter 5: Expanding Your Automation Landscape
Technical requirements
Finding your automation use cases in your day-to-day work
Assessing the tasks
Ansible and ITSM
Automation and Information Technology Infrastructure Library compliance
Automation feasibility and usability
How complex is the use case?
Can I reduce human error?
Can I reduce the deployment time and speed up my tasks?
How frequently am I doing this task?
How much time can I save by automating this task?
Can I save some money?
Involving teams in the automation journey
Ansible dynamic inventory
Using the Ansible dynamic inventory with AWS
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Madapparambath, G. (2022). Ansible for Real-Life Automation: A Complete Ansible Handbook Filled with Practical IT Automation Use Cases . Packt Publishing, Limited.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Madapparambath, Gineesh. 2022. Ansible for Real-Life Automation: A Complete Ansible Handbook Filled With Practical IT Automation Use Cases. Birmingham: Packt Publishing, Limited.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Madapparambath, Gineesh. Ansible for Real-Life Automation: A Complete Ansible Handbook Filled With Practical IT Automation Use Cases Birmingham: Packt Publishing, Limited, 2022.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Madapparambath, G. (2022). Ansible for real-life automation: a complete ansible handbook filled with practical IT automation use cases. Birmingham: Packt Publishing, Limited.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Madapparambath, Gineesh. Ansible for Real-Life Automation: A Complete Ansible Handbook Filled With Practical IT Automation Use Cases Packt Publishing, Limited, 2022.
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| 505 | 8 | |a Selecting a Git server -- Where should I keep automation artifacts? -- Ansible and Git repositories -- best practices -- Managing automation content in a Git server -- Setting up a GitHub account -- Creating your first Git repository -- Installing Git on a local machine -- Configuring SSH keys in GitHub -- Adding content to the Git repository -- Collaboration is the key to automation -- Using Git branching -- Implementing Git branching -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 2: Finding Use Cases and Integrations -- Chapter 5: Expanding Your Automation Landscape -- Technical requirements | |
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