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Beginning Ansible Concepts and Application

Provisioning, Configuring, and Managing Servers, Applications, and Their Dependencies

By: Peter Membrey, Shaun R Smith

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Paperback | 29 April 2022

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Chapter 1 - Setting the Scene

Foundations 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 skills

Writing 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 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

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