Learning Ansible 2

by Fabio Alessandro Locati

Learn everything you need to manage and handle your systems with ease with Ansible 2 using this comprehensive guide About This Book - Simplify the automation of applications and systems using the newest version of Ansible - Get acquainted with fundamentals of Ansible such as playbooks, modules, and various testing strategies - A comprehensive, learning guide that provides you with great skills to automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2 Who This Book Is For The book is for sys admins who want to automate their organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2. No prior knowledge of Ansible is required. What You Will Learn - Set up Ansible 2 and an Ansible 2 project in a future-proof way - Perform basic operations with Ansible 2 such as creating, copying, moving, changing, and deleting files, and creating and deleting users - Deploy complete cloud environments using Ansible 2 on AWS and DigitalOcean - Explore complex operations with Ansible 2 (Ansible vault, e-mails, and Nagios) - Develop and test Ansible playbooks - Write a custom module and test it In Detail Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With Ansible, even complex tasks can be handled easier than before. In this book, you will learn about the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible 2 by diving deeply into topics such as installation (Linux, BSD, and Windows Support), playbooks, modules, various testing strategies, provisioning, deployment, and orchestration. In this book, you will get accustomed with the new features of Ansible 2 such as cleaner architecture, task blocks, playbook parsing, new execution strategy plugins, and modules. You will also learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as AWS. The book ends with the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy, where you will learn to interact Ansible with different OSes to speed up your work to previously unseen levels By the end of the book, you'll able to leverage the Ansible parameters to create expeditious tasks for your organization by implementing the Ansible 2 techniques and paradigms. Style and approach This book is a step-by-step learning guide on the all new Ansible 2, which is an ideal configuration management tool.

Genres: Technology

363 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 21, 2016

Reviews

[AmirHossein Goodarzi · Rating 1 out of 5]

lot's of mistakes. not recommended.

[John Petro · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some mistakes here, and they didn't spell out how to set up the lab environment, however some useful concepts even if you already know ansible.

[Adam M · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have been an Ansible user for over 5 years and I found this book to be a great introduction to a automation tool that I have been using to manage infrastructure for many years.

The author did a great job of explaining many different approaches to automation problems using Ansible and based on the hints and tips scattered throughout the book it is clear that the author is extremely familiar with Ansible.

The author created a pathway for the reader, if they were so inclined, to build a automated release pipeline with just a few steps.

I would recommend this book for readers that are interested in augmenting their infrastructure release strategy or just want to learn a new way to automate infrastructure in general.

[Marat · Rating 2 out of 5]

unfortunately, there is missing part which precisely describes Lab environment and how to configure it correctly only vagrantfiles without concrete schema.
So without lab environment you will not be able to follow the author commands. Overall, do not recommend to read this book.