Learn to automate and manage the IT infrastructure and applications using Ansible Key Features * Use Ansible for day-to-day IT and application automation tasks * Learn how to automate private and public cloud platforms * Manage containers and container platforms using Ansible Book Description Ansible is a free and open source automation tool to automate and manage the IT infrastructure. With the growing community base and contributions from vendors, Ansible can be used for almost all automation use cases. Ansible for Real Life Automation will teach you how to set up Ansible and remote managed nodes in the production and dev/staging environment and how to handle the management. You will begin by installing and deploying Ansible in your work environment. You will learn automation using simple use cases in your workplace such as collecting system information, weekly reboot, security scanning and so on. Not only Linux machines, you will also learn how to use Ansible to automate Microsoft Windows machines and network devices. You will explore and learn how to begin with the automation use cases for private and public cloud platforms such as VMWare, AWS, GCP and create automation playbooks to manage the cloud infrastructure. Since Ansible is a best fit for most of the DevOps workflow stages, you will also learn how to integrate Ansible within your DevOps workflow. To implement efficient automation solutions, you will also learn the best practices, methods and possible ways to automate non-supported platforms and operations. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in finding and developing real life automation use cases using Ansible. What you will learn * Find real life IT automation use cases and use Ansible to automate it * Use Ansible Automation Platform and integrate it with different tools * Develop playbooks with best practices * Approach automation use cases with proper methods * Integrate Ansible with DevOps tools like Terraform, Jenkins, OpenShift, and Kubernetes * Manage applications and container platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift) using Ansible * Automate database operations using Ansible for PostgreSQL database Who This Book Is For This book is intended for systems engineers and DevOps engineers who want to use Ansible as their automation tool. The readers should have basic knowledge in Linux and know how to do things in the manual way which they are going to automate.

Book Information
ISBN 9781803235417
Author Gineesh Madapparambath
Format Paperback
Page Count 395
Imprint Packt Publishing Limited
Publisher Packt Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 75g