Ansible for Real-Life Automation. A complete Ansible handbook filled with practical IT automation use cases

Ansible for Real-Life Automation. A complete Ansible handbook filled with practical IT automation use cases - Opis

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.Starting with its installation and deployment, you’ll learn automation using simple use cases in your workplace. You’ll go beyond just Linux machines to use Ansible to automate Microsoft Windows machines, network devices, and private and public cloud platforms such as VMWare, AWS, and GCP. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll integrate Ansible into your DevOps workflow and deal with application container management and container platforms such as Kubernetes. This Ansible book also contains a detailed introduction to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to help you get up to speed with Red Hat AAP and integration with CI/CD and ITSM.What’s more, you’ll implement efficient automation solutions while learning best practices and methods to secure sensitive data using Ansible Vault and alternatives to automate non-supported platforms and operations using raw commands, command modules, and REST API calls.By the end of this book, you’ll be proficient in identifying and developing real-life automation use cases using Ansible. Spis treści: 1. Ansible Automation – Introduction 2. Starting with Simple Automation3. Automating Your Daily Jobs4. Exploring Collaboration in Automation Development5. Expanding Your Automation Landscape6. Automating Microsoft Windows and Network (...) więcej Devices7. Managing Your Virtualization and Cloud Platforms8. Helping the Database Team with Automation9. Implementing Automation in DevOps workflow 10. Managing Containers using Ansible11. Managing Kubernetes using Ansible12. Integrating Ansible with your Tools13. Using Ansible for Secret Management14. Keeping Automation Simple but Powerful15. How to Automate nonsupported platforms 16. Automation Best Practices for Production O autorze: 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. mniej