Ansible for DevOps: Server and configuration management for humans

✍ Scribed by Jeff Geerling

• Publisher: Midwestern Mac, LLC
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 492
• Edition: 2nd edition (v2.0)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Covers Ansible 2.10!

Ansible is a simple, but powerful, server and configuration management tool (with a few other tricks up its sleeve). This book will help those familiar with the command line and basic shell scripting start using Ansible to provision and manage anywhere from one to thousands of servers.

The book begins with fundamentals, like installing Ansible, setting up a basic inventory file, and basic concepts, then guides you through Ansible's many uses, including ad-hoc commands, basic and advanced playbooks, application deployments, multiple-provider server provisioning, and even Docker and Kubernetes orchestration! Everything is explained with pertinent real-world examples, often using Vagrant-managed virtual machines.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Getting Started with Ansible
Chapter 2 - Local Infrastructure Development: Ansible and Vagrant
Chapter 3 - Ad-Hoc Commands
Chapter 4 - Ansible Playbooks
Chapter 5 - Ansible Playbooks - Beyond the Basics
Chapter 6 - Playbook Organization - Roles, Includes, and Imports
Chapter 7 - Ansible Plugins and Content Collections
Chapter 8 - Inventories
Chapter 9 - Ansible Cookbooks
Chapter 10 - Deployments with Ansible
Chapter 11 - Server Security and Ansible
Chapter 12 - Automating Your Automation with Ansible Tower and CI/CD
Chapter 13 - Testing and CI for Ansible Content
Chapter 14 - Automating HTTPS and TLS Certificates
Chapter 15 - Docker and Ansible
Afterword
Appendix A - Using Ansible on Windows workstations
Appendix B - Ansible Best Practices and Conventions
Notes