Learning Ansible

Use Ansible to configure your systems, deploy software, and orchestrate advanced IT tasks

About This Book

• Use Ansible to automate your infrastructure effectively, with minimal effort
• Customize and consolidate your configuration management tools with the secure and highly-reliable features of Ansible
• Unleash the abilities of Ansible and extend the functionality of your mainframe system through the use of powerful, real-world examples

Who This Book Is For

If you want to learn how to use Ansible to automate an infrastructure, either from scratch or to augment your current tooling with Ansible, then this is the book for you. It has plenty of practical examples to help you get to grips with Ansible.

In Detail

Automation includes provisioning new servers, making sure the servers adhere to their role and maintain the desired state from a configuration perspective, and orchestrating various actions across environments and deploying code as expected to all these servers. This is where Ansible steps in. It is secure, highly reliable, and minimalistic in nature. It automates configuration management, application deployment, and many other IT needs.

Learning Ansible will equip you with the necessary skills to automate/improve your infrastructure from a configuration management perspective. You will also be able to use Ansible for one-click deployments, provisioning, and orchestrating your infrastructure.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Ansible
Chapter 2. Developing, Testing, and Releasing Playbooks
Chapter 3. Taking Ansible to Production
Chapter 4. Error Handling, Rollback, and Reporting
Chapter 5. Working with Custom Modules
Chapter 6. Provisioning
Chapter 7. Deployment and Orchestration