Ansible
eBook - ePub

Ansible

The Practical Guide for Administrators and DevOps Teams

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Ansible

The Practical Guide for Administrators and DevOps Teams

About this book

If you want to keep your servers in order, Ansible is the tool of choice! In this practical guide, you'll learn how to use Ansible to automate server configuration, software deployment, and more. Start by installing Ansible and setting up your initial inventory management process. Then, follow step-by-step instructions for system orchestration, from the basics of playbooks and tasks to using Ansible with Docker. With expert tips and best practices for testing, debugging, and more, this is your all-in-one guide to automating with Ansible! Highlights include:
1) Basic setup
2) Inventory management
3) Ad-hoc commands and patterns
4) YAML
5) Playbooks, tasks, and plays
6) Modularization
7) Roles
8) Includes
9) Module library
10) Web interfaces
11) Docker
12) Custom collections and modules

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Table of contents

  1. Notes on Usage
  2. Table of Contents
  3.   Preface
  4.   About This Book
  5. 1   Introduction and Installation
  6. 2   Basic Setup and Initial Inventory Management
  7. 3   Ad Hoc Commands and Patterns
  8. 4   YAML: The Configuration and Serialization Language
  9. 5   Playbooks and Tasks: The Basics
  10. 6   Playbooks and Tasks: Advanced Methods
  11. 7   Using Modules and Collections
  12. 8   Modularization with Roles and Includes
  13. 9   Web Interfaces: AWX and More
  14. 10   Additional Tools and Techniques
  15. 11   Ansible and Docker
  16. 12   Inventory Management: Advanced Methods
  17. 13   Ansible and the Cloud
  18. 14   Ansible as an Orchestration Tool
  19. 15   Ansible and Windows
  20. 16   Callback Plug-ins
  21. 17   Creating Your Own Collections and Modules
  22. 18   Developing and Testing with Molecule
  23. 19   Recipes, How-Tos, and Best Practices
  24. 20   What Could Be Better, and What Is Still Missing?
  25. A   Project-Specific Environment Variables with “direnv”
  26. B   The “pass” Password Manager
  27. C   Secure Shell
  28. D   Regular Expressions
  29. E   “vim” and “nano” Tips and Tricks
  30. F   The Author
  31. Index
  32. Service Pages
  33. Legal Notes