Название: IT Infrastructure Automation Using Ansible: Guidelines to Automate the Network, Windows, Linux, and Cloud AdministrationАвтор: Waqas Irtaza
Издательство: BPB Publications
Год: 2022
Страниц: 220
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.2 MB
Expert solutions to automate routine IT tasks using Ansible.
This book deals with all aspects of Ansible IT infrastructure automation. While reading this book, you should look for automation opportunities in your current role and automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks using Ansible. This book contains Ansible fundamentals assuming you are totally new to Ansible. Proper instructions for setting up the laboratory environment to implement each concept are explained and covered in detail. This book is equipped with practical examples, use-cases and modules on the network. The system and cloud management are practically demonstrated in the book. You will learn to automate all the common administrative tasks throughout the entire IT infrastructure.
Ansible is a powerful open source automation language. Uniquely, it’s also a deployment and orchestration tool. While Ansible provides more productive drop-in replacements for many core capabilities in other automation solutions, it also seeks to solve other major unsolved IT challenges. Ansible is an open-source automation tool, or platform, used for IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, service orchestration, and infrastructure provisioning. Automation is crucial these days, with IT environments that are complex and often need to scale quickly for system, network and cloud administrators and developers to keep up if they had to do everything manually. Automation simplifies complex infrastructure tasks, not just making developers’ jobs more manageable but allowing them to focus attention on other tasks that add value to an organization. In other words, it frees up time and increases efficiency. And Ansible, as noted above, is rapidly rising to the top in the world of automation tools.
This book will help establish and build the proficiency of your automation skills, and you can start making the best use of Ansible in enterprise automation.
What you will learn:
- Install Ansible and learn the fundamentals.
- Use practical examples and learn about the loop, conditional statements, and variables.
- Understand the Ansible network modules and how to apply them in our day-to-day network management.
- Learn to automate the Windows and Linux infrastructure using Ansible.
- Automate routine administrative tasks for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
- Explore how to use Ansible for Docker and Kubernetes.
Key Features:
- Single handy guide for all IT teams to bring automation throughout the enterprise.
- In-depth practical demonstration of various automation use-cases on the IT infrastructure.
- Expert-led guidelines and best practices to write Ansible playbooks without any errors.
Who this book is for:
This book is for all IT students and professionals who want to manage or plan to administer the IT infrastructure. Knowing the basic Linux command-line would be good although not mandatory.
Table of Contents:
1. Up and Running with Ansible
2. Ansible Basics
3. Ansible Advance Concepts
4. Ansible for Network Administration
5. Ansible for System Administration
6. Ansible for Cloud Administration
7. Ansible Tips and Tricks
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