Beginning Ansible Concepts and Application
Provisioning, Configuring, and Managing Servers, Applications, and Their Dependencies
(Sprache: Englisch)
Learn the concepts and develop the skills to be a true Ansible artist and use it inside and outside the box. This book applies key concepts immediately while building up your Ansible skills layer by layer through easy to grasp examples and engaging...
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Learn the concepts and develop the skills to be a true Ansible artist and use it inside and outside the box. This book applies key concepts immediately while building up your Ansible skills layer by layer through easy to grasp examples and engaging projects. You'll also think about security, why testing is important, and how to use version control safely.As a beginner to Ansible, you'll be guided step-by-step through creating your first Ansible playbook to deploying your first server and writing more complex cross-dependency playbooks. From the first line of code to the last, you'll constantly iterate and simplify your playbooks, iwhile taking on more complex topics as you construct a full Wordpress website stack consisting of a database, web servers, and load balancer. This book will prompt you to think about how these fit together and will explain what to do to ensure maintainability long into the future.
Don't just use Ansible. Completely change how you go about provisioning, configuring, and managing servers, applications, and their dependencies with this powerful, open source automation tool. In exchange for this power and efficiency, Ansible demands a very different way of thinking about resources and how they all fit together. This can be hard to get your head around if you've never done it before. Every step of the way, Beginning Ansible Concepts and Application show you best practices so that you can confidently start using Ansible right away.
What You'll Learn
- Set up an Ansible environment
- Create and run playbooks
- Organize groups of variables, vaults, roles, and tasks to ensure your playbooks are scalable
- Protect secrets using Ansible Vaults
- Automate the build of a Wordpress website
Who This Book Is For
Developers looking for a better way to manage their servers other than by logging in and typing commands. Also enthusiasts who want to learn not just how to use Ansible but how to use it correctly and confidently.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Beginning Ansible Concepts and Application “
Chapter 1 - Setting the SceneFoundations of Ansibl
Create an environment
Challenges to come
Chapter 2 - Say Hello to Ansible
Introduce Ansible
History
Tools
Chapter 3 - Getting Ansible and Setting Up the Environment
Download and set up Ansible
Using virtual python environments
Using VirtualBox
Chapter 4 - Your First Steps with Ansible
Play with Ansible
Revision control and security aspects
Python 2 vs 3
Chapter 5 - Run Your First playbook
Create and run your first playbook
Structure of a playbook
Put servers under source control
Chapter 6 - Designing an Inventory
Using localhost
Inventories
Chapter 7 - Setting Your Sights - Target the Servers You Want
Setting up real servers
Playbook skills and inventory skillsWriting the playbook
Chapter 8 - Batteries Included - The Core Modules
Core modules
Installing packages, copying config files, and making changes to system config
Web based documentation Chapter 9 - Gathering Data and the Power of Facts
Using fact gathering
Automatic (implicit) fact-gathering for every playbook
Explicit fact gathering
Stat to gain information on files, directories, and symbolic links
Chapter 10 - The Building Blocks of Ansible - Roles
Chapter 11 - Making Decisions and Controlling Flow
Conditionals
Options
includes and when clauses Chapter 12 - Repeating Yourself
Loops
Syntax
Chapter 13 - Jinja 2 and the Power of Templates
Chapter 14 - Structuring Your Repo for
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Success
Basic directory structure
Organize groups of variables, vaults, roles, and tasks to ensure your playbooks are scalable
Chapter 15 - Locking Away Your Secrets
Ansible-vaults
Environment specific encrypted stores
Chapter 16 - Extending the Power of Ansible
Creation of custom modules
Module types (actions, filters, callback to name a few)
Hints and tips on when a plugin is the right course of action Chapter 17 - Dynamically Generating Your Inventory
Inventory, or CMDB
Inventory source
Simple web service to pull in the ansible inventory at runtime
Meta groups
Chapter 18 - Community
Share playbooks with like-minded sysadmins
Ansible Galaxy
Chapter 19 - Troubleshooting Ansible
Chapter 20 - Other Projects Around AnsiblePOSSIBLE: document interesting projects that make use of Ansible's power, such as ansible-cmdb
Basic directory structure
Organize groups of variables, vaults, roles, and tasks to ensure your playbooks are scalable
Chapter 15 - Locking Away Your Secrets
Ansible-vaults
Environment specific encrypted stores
Chapter 16 - Extending the Power of Ansible
Creation of custom modules
Module types (actions, filters, callback to name a few)
Hints and tips on when a plugin is the right course of action Chapter 17 - Dynamically Generating Your Inventory
Inventory, or CMDB
Inventory source
Simple web service to pull in the ansible inventory at runtime
Meta groups
Chapter 18 - Community
Share playbooks with like-minded sysadmins
Ansible Galaxy
Chapter 19 - Troubleshooting Ansible
Chapter 20 - Other Projects Around AnsiblePOSSIBLE: document interesting projects that make use of Ansible's power, such as ansible-cmdb
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Autoren-Porträt von Shaun R Smith, Peter Membrey
Peter Membrey is a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Chartered IT Professional and a Chartered Engineer who holds a Master's degree in IT specializing in Information Security. He holds a current RHCE and had the honor of working for and with Red Hat for many years. He is currently studying for an Engineering Doctorate at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with an interest in precision time keeping and synchronization in IoT devices. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife Sarah and sons Kaydyn and Xandyr. He still can't speak Chinese.Shaun Smith holds a First-class dual honors degree in Computer Science and Psychology, and has spent the past 2 decades building out large-scale, secure infrastructure in all corners of the world. Having dabbled in everything from his humble beginnings as a Linux Systems Administrator, to building out state-of-the-art data centres, high-density WiFi installations, security solutions for large government contracts, and designing cross-border solutions for numerous large businesses entering the Chinese market. Shaun has become an evangelist for well-tested, maintainable code-bases and aims to automate himself out of any job he enters. He has settled on Hong Kong as his long-term home, where he now lives with his wife and two beautiful children.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Shaun R Smith , Peter Membrey
- 2022, 1st ed., XXII, 283 Seiten, Maße: 15,5 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 1484281721
- ISBN-13: 9781484281727
Sprache:
Englisch
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