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