Ansible : up & running, automating configuration management and deployment the easy way / Bas Meijer, Lorin Hochstein & René Moser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meijer, Bas, author.

Hochstein, Lorin, author.

Moser, René, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Configuration management.

Programming languages (Electronic computers).

Open source software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol : O'Reilly Media, Incorporated, 2022.

Summary:

Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages: It's minimal in nature. You don't need to install agents on your nodes. And there's an easy learning curve. With this updated third edition, you'll quickly learn how to be productive with Ansible whether you're a developer deploying code or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution. Authors Bas Meijer, Lorin Hochstein, and Rene Moser show you how to write playbooks (Ansible's configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool's real power: built-in declarative modules. You'll learn how Ansible has all the functionality you need--and the simplicity you desire. Explore Ansible configuration management and deployment Manage Linux, Windows, and network devices Learn how to apply Ansible best practices Understand how to use the new collections format Create custom modules and plug-ins Generate reusable Ansible content for open source middleware Build container images, images for cloud instances, and cloud infrastructure Automate CI/CD development environments Learn how to use Ansible Automation Platform for DevOps.

Contents:

Preface to the Third Edition

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Installation and Setup

Chapter 3. Playbooks: A Beginning

Chapter 4. Inventory: Describing Your Servers

Chapter 5. Variables and Facts

Chapter 6. Introducing Mezzanine: Our Test Application

Chapter 7. Deploying Mezzanine with Ansible

Chapter 8. Debugging Ansible Playbooks

Chapter 9. Roles: Scaling Up Your Playbooks

Chapter 10. Complex Playbooks

Chapter 11. Customizing Hosts, Runs, and Handlers

Chapter 12. Managing Windows Hosts

Chapter 13. Ansible and Containers

Chapter 14. Quality Assurance with Molecule

Chapter 15. Collections

Chapter 16. Creating Images

Chapter 17. Cloud Infrastructure

Chapter 18. Callback Plug-ins

Chapter 19. Custom Modules

Chapter 20. Making Ansible Go Even Faster

Chapter 21. Networking and Security

Chapter 22. CI/CD and Ansible

Chapter 23. Ansible Automation Platform

Chapter 24. Best Practices

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781098109141

1098109147

OCLC:

1336404780