Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages--it's minimal in nature, you don't need to install anything on your nodes, and it has an easy learning curve. With this updated third edition, you'll learn how to be productive with this tool quickly, whether you're a developer deploying code to production or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution. Authors Bas Meijer, Lorin Hochstein, and Rene Moser show you how to write playbooks (Ansible's configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool's real power: built-in declarative modules. You'll discover that Ansible has the functionality you need--and the simplicity you desire. You'll learn: Ansible configuration management and deployment Ansible best practices How to use the new Collections format How to use Ansible on Windows, Linux, and macOS How to use Ansible in larger organizations How to create a local development environment How to create reusable Ansible content for open source middleware How to create container images, images for cloud instances, and cloud computing instances This book is best read start to finish, with later chapters building on earlier ones. Because it's written in a tutorial style, you can follow along on your own machine. Most examples focus on web applications. The third edition takes the reader to the next level in running Ansible for mission-critical work. Using software engineering methods to validate code quality and test frameworks to verify results in a test setup eradicates the guesswork and assumptions. Ansible 2.10 runs best with Python 3.8.

About the Author
Bas Meijer (he/him) is a freelance software engineer and devops coach. With a major from the University of Amsterdam he has been pioneering web development since the early nineties. He worked in high-frequency trading, banking, cloud security, aviation, and government. Bas has been an Ansible Ambassador since 2014, and was selected too as a Hashicorp Ambassador in 2020. Lorin Hochstein is a senior software engineer on the Chaos Team at Netflix, where he works on ensuring that Netflix remains available. He is a coauthor of the OpenStack Operations Guide (O'Reilly), as well as numerous academic publications. Rene Moser lives in Switzerland with his wife and three kids, likes simple things that work and scale, and earned an Advanced Diploma of Higher Education in IT. He has been engaged in the Open Source community for the past 15 years, most recently working as an ASF CloudStack Committer and as the author of the Ansible CloudStack integration with over 30 CloudStack modules. He became an Ansible Community Core Member in April 2016 and is currently a senior system engineer at SwissTXT.


Book Information
ISBN 9781098109158
Author Bas Meijer
Format Paperback
Page Count 468
Imprint O'Reilly Media
Publisher O'Reilly Media