Learn Ansible: Automate cloud, security, and network infrastructure using Ansible 2.x
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Packt Publishing
Ansible has grown from a small, open source orchestration tool to a full-blown orchestration and configuration management tool, developed by Red Hat. Its powerful core modules cover a wide range of infrastructures, including on-premises systems and public clouds, operating systems, devices, and services, enabling it to manage pretty much your entire end-to-end environment. Thanks to its ease of use, Ansible is the first choice of IT automation tools among system administrators.
This end-to-end practical guide will help you transition from a beginner to pro Ansible user. Starting with the installation and configuration, you'll be introduced to Ansible playbooks. After getting a quick rundown of the essential Ansible commands, you'll understand how to work with different Ansible modules for core IT automation tasks, such as infrastructure management, configuration management, and cloud deployment. Learn Ansible also covers aspects of hardening and securing your servers.
By the end of this book, you'll have complete understanding of Ansible and how you can use it in your own IT environment for efficient automation.
About the Author
Russ McKendrick is an experienced solution architect who has been working in IT and related industries for over 25 years. During his career, he has had varied responsibilities, from looking after an entire IT infrastructure to providing first-line, second-line, and senior support in both client-facing and internal teams for large organizations.
Russ supports open source systems and tools on public and private clouds at Node4 Limited, where he heads up the public cloud team.
- Write your own playbooks to configure servers running CentOS, Ubuntu, and Windows
- Identify repetitive tasks and write playbooks to automate them
- Define a highly available public cloud infrastructure in code to distribute your infrastructure configuration easily
- Deploy and configure Ansible Tower and Ansible AWX
- Explore the use of community contributed roles
- Use Ansible in your day-to-day role and projects
- An Introduction to Ansible
- Installing and Running Ansible
- The Ansible Commands
- Deploying a LAMP stack
- Deploying WordPress
- Targeting Multiple Distributions
- The core network modules
- Moving to the Cloud
- Building out a cloud network
- Highly Available Cloud Deployments
- Building out a VMware deployment
- Ansible Windows Modules
- Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible and OpenSCAP
- Deploying WPScan and OWASP ZAP
- Introducing Ansible Tower and Ansible AWX
- Ansible Galaxy
- Next Steps with Ansible
- Assessments
