Practical Ansible: Learn how to automate infrastructure, manage configuration and deploy applications, 2nd Edition (Retail Copy)

Leverage the power of Ansible to gain complete control over your systems and automate deployments along with implementing configuration changes
Key Features

Orchestrate major cloud platforms such as OpenStack, AWS, and Azure
Use Ansible to automate network devices
Automate your containerized workload with Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes
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Book Description

Ansible empowers you to automate a myriad of tasks, including software provisioning, configuration management, infrastructure deployment, and application rollouts. It can be used as a deployment tool as well as an orchestration tool. While Ansible provides simple yet powerful features to automate multi-layer environments using agentless communication, it can also solve other critical IT challenges, such as ensuring continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) with zero downtime.

In this book, you'll work with the latest release of Ansible and learn how to solve complex issues quickly with the help of task-oriented scenarios. You'll start by installing and configuring Ansible on Linux and macOS to automate monotonous and repetitive IT tasks and learn concepts such as playbooks, inventories, and roles. As you progress, you'll gain insight into the YAML syntax and learn how to port between Ansible versions. Additionally, you'll understand how Ansible enables you to orchestrate multi-layer environments such as networks, containers, and the cloud.

By the end of this Ansible book, you'll be well versed in writing playbooks and other related Ansible code to overcome all your IT challenges, from infrastructure-as-a-code provisioning to application deployments and handling mundane day-to-day maintenance tasks.
What you will learn

Explore the fundamentals of the Ansible framework
Understand how collections enhance your automation efforts
Avoid common mistakes and pitfalls when writing automation code
Extend Ansible by developing your own modules and plugins
Contribute to the Ansible project by submitting your own code
Follow best practices for working with cloud environment inventories
Troubleshoot issues triggered during Ansible playbook runs

Who this book is for

This book is for DevOps engineers, administrators, or any IT professionals looking to automate IT tasks using Ansible. Prior knowledge of Ansible is not a prerequisite.
Table of Contents

Getting Started with Ansible
Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible
Defining Your Inventory
Playbooks and Roles
Creating and Consuming Modules
Creating and Consuming Collections
Creating and Consuming Plugins
Coding Best Practices
Advanced Ansible Topics
Network Automation with Ansible
Container and Cloud Management
Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies
Getting Started with Ansible Automation Controller
Execution Environments