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

Learn how to automate and manage your IT infrastructure and applications using Ansible

Key Features:

• Develop Ansible automation use cases by automating day-to-day IT and application operations
• Use Ansible to automate private and public cloud, application containers, and container platforms
• Improve your DevOps workflow with Ansible

Book Description:

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.

What You Will Learn:

• Explore real-life IT automation use cases and employ Ansible for automation
• Develop playbooks with best practices for production environments
• Approach different automation use cases with the most suitable methods
• Use Ansible for infrastructure management and automate VMWare, AWS, and GCP
• Integrate Ansible with Terraform, Jenkins, OpenShift, and Kubernetes
• Manage container platforms such as Kubernetes and OpenShift with Ansible
• Get to know the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and its capabilities

Who this book is for:

This book is for DevOps and systems engineers looking to adopt Ansible as their automation tool. To get started with this book, basic knowledge of Linux is necessary, along with an understanding of how tasks are done the manual way before setting out to automate them.

學習如何使用Ansible自動化和管理您的IT基礎架構和應用程式

主要特點：
- 通過自動化日常IT和應用程式操作來開發Ansible自動化使用案例
- 使用Ansible自動化私有和公有雲、應用程式容器和容器平台
- 通過Ansible改進您的DevOps工作流程

書籍描述：
準備好利用Ansible的廣泛適用性，使用《Ansible實戰自動化》來自動化和管理IT基礎架構。本書將指導您在生產和開發/暫存環境中設置和管理這個免費且開源的自動化工具和遠程管理節點。

從安裝和部署開始，您將學習在工作場所使用簡單的使用案例進行自動化。您將不僅僅限於Linux機器，還將使用Ansible自動化Microsoft Windows機器、網絡設備以及VMWare、AWS和GCP等私有和公有雲平台。隨著您進一步學習，您將將Ansible集成到DevOps工作流程中，並處理應用程式容器管理以及Kubernetes等容器平台。這本Ansible書籍還包含了對Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform的詳細介紹，以幫助您快速掌握Red Hat AAP以及與CI/CD和ITSM的集成。

此外，您將實施高效的自動化解決方案，同時學習使用Ansible Vault保護敏感數據的最佳實踐和方法，以及使用原始命令、命令模塊和REST API調用來自動化不受支持的平台和操作的替代方法。

通過閱讀本書，您將能夠熟練地識別和開發使用Ansible的實際自動化使用案例。

您將學到什麼：
- 探索實際的IT自動化使用案例，並使用Ansible進行自動化
- 使用最佳實踐為生產環境開發playbook
- 使用最適合的方法處理不同的自動化使用案例
- 使用Ansible進行基礎架構管理，並自動化VMWare、AWS和GCP
- 將Ansible與Terraform、Jenkins、OpenShift和Kubernetes集成
- 使用Ansible管理Kubernetes和OpenShift等容器平台
- 了解Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform及其功能

本書適合尋求採用Ansible作為其自動化工具的DevOps和系統工程師。要開始閱讀本書，需要基本的Linux知識，以及在開始自動化之前了解如何手動完成任務的理解。