Ansible, 1st ed. From Beginner to Pro
This book is your concise guide to Ansible, the simple way to automate apps and IT infrastructure. In less than 250 pages, this book takes you from knowing nothing about configuration management to understanding how to use Ansible in a professional setting.
You will learn how to create an Ansible playbook to automatically set up an environment, ready to install an open source project. You?ll extract common tasks into roles that you can reuse across all your projects, and build your infrastructure on top of existing open source roles and modules that are available for you to use. You will learn to build your own modules to perform actions specific to your business. By the end you will create an entire cluster of virtualized machines, all of which have your applications and all their dependencies installed automatically. Finally, you'll test your Ansible playbooks.
Ansible can do as much or as little as you want it to. Ansible: From Beginner to Pro will teach you the key skills you need to be an Ansible professional. You?ll be writing roles and modules and creating entire environments without human intervention in no time at all ? add it to your library today.
- Learn why Ansible is so popular and how to download and install it
- Create a playbook that automatically downloads and installs a popular open source project
- Use open source roles to complete common tasks, and write your own specific to your business
- Extend Ansible by writing your own modules
- Test your infrastructure using Test Kitchen and ServerSpec
1. Getting Started
2. The Inventory File
3. Installing Wordpress
4. Ansible Roles
5. Parameterising Playbooks
6. Writing Your Own Modules
7. Orchestrating AWS
8. Testing with Test Kitchen
9. Advanced Ansible
Appendix A. Installing Ansible
Appendix B. YAML Files
Date de parution : 09-2016
Ouvrage de 170 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
