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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- About Packt -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Section 1: Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Ansible -- Technical requirements -- Installing and configuring Ansible -- Installing Ansible on Linux and FreeBSD -- Installing Ansible on macOS -- Configuring Windows hosts for Ansible -- Understanding your Ansible installation -- Understanding how Ansible connects to hosts -- Verifying the Ansible installation -- Managed node requirements -- Running from source versus pre-built RPMs -- Summary |
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Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible -- Technical requirements -- Getting familiar with the Ansible framework -- Breaking down the Ansible components -- Learning the YAML syntax -- Organizing your automation code -- Exploring the configuration file -- Command-line arguments -- Understanding ad hoc commands -- Defining variables -- Understanding Jinja2 filters -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Defining Your Inventory -- Technical requirements -- Creating an inventory file and adding hosts -- Using host groups |
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Adding host and group variables to your inventory -- Generating a dynamic inventory file -- Using multiple inventory sources in the inventory directories -- Using static groups with dynamic groups -- Special host management using patterns -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Playbooks and Roles -- Technical requirements -- Understanding the playbook framework -- Comparing playbooks and ad hoc tasks -- Defining plays and tasks -- Understanding roles -- the playbook organizer -- Setting up role-based variables and dependencies -- Ansible Galaxy -- Using conditions in your code |
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Repeating tasks with loops -- Grouping tasks using blocks -- Configuring play execution via strategies -- Using ansible-pull -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Section 2: Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible -- Chapter 5: Consuming and Creating Modules -- Technical requirements -- Executing multiple modules using the command line -- Reviewing the module index -- Accessing module documentation from the command line -- Module return values -- Developing custom modules -- Avoiding common pitfalls -- Testing and documenting your module -- The module checklist |
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Contributing upstream -- submitting a GitHub pull request -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 6: Consuming and Creating Plugins -- Technical requirements -- Discovering the plugin types -- Finding included plugins -- Creating custom plugins -- Learning to integrate custom plugins with Ansible source code -- Sharing plugins with the community -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Coding Best Practices -- Technical requirements -- The preferred directory layout -- The best approach to cloud inventories -- Differentiating between different environment types |
| Summary |
Anyone with responsibility for an IT infrastructure will benefit from the increased efficiency and reliability that can be delivered through automation with Ansible, an open-source, agentless tool that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and many other infrastructures and application-related tasks. |
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Information technology -- Management -- Computer programs.
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Technologie de l'information -- Gestion -- Logiciels. |
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Computer networking & communications. |
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Distributed systems. |
| Added Author |
Freeman, James, author.
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Locati, Fabio Alessandro, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Oh, Daniel Practical Ansible 2 : Automate Infrastructure, Manage Configuration, and Deploy Applications with Ansible 2. 9 Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited,c2020 |
| ISBN |
9781789615418 (e-book) |
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1789615410 |
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