This is the code repository for Ansible for Real-Life Automation, published by Packt.
A complete Ansible handbook filled with practical IT automation use cases
Get ready to leverage the power of Ansible’s wide applicability to automate and manage IT infrastructure with Ansible for Real-Life Automation. This book will guide you in setting up and managing the free and open source automation tool and remote-managed nodes in the production and dev/staging environments.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Explore real-life IT automation use cases and employ Ansible for automation'
- Develop playbooks with best practices for production environments
- Approach different automation use cases with the most suitable methods
- Use Ansible for infrastructure management and automate VMWare, AWS, and GCP
- Integrate Ansible with Terraform, Jenkins, OpenShift, and Kubernetes
- Manage container platforms such as Kubernetes and OpenShift with Ansible
- Get to know the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and its capabilities
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All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter11.
The code will look like the following:
[ansible@ansible Chapter-11]$ export KUBECONFIG=$KUBECONFIG:/
home/ansible/.kube/minikube-config
Following is what you need for this book: This book is for DevOps and systems engineers looking to adopt Ansible as their automation tool. To get started with this book, basic knowledge of Linux is necessary, along with an understanding of how tasks are done the manual way before setting out to automate them.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-16).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1-15 | Ansible 2.9 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL8) |
| 1-15 | ansible-core 2.11 later | Microsoft Windows 2019 (for Windows use case) |
| 1-15 | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 | VyOS (for the network automation use case) |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
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