Leverage the power of Ansible 2 and related tools and scale DevOps processes
About This Book
Learn how to use Ansible playbooks along with YAML and JINJA to create efficient DevOps solutions
Use Ansible to provision and automate Docker containers and images
Learn the fundamentals of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery and how to leverage Ansible to implement these modern DevOps
Learn the fundamentals of creating custom Ansible modules
Learn the fundamentals of Ansible Galaxy
Follow along step-by-step as we teach you to scale Ansible for your DevOps processes
Who This Book Is For
If you are a DevOps engineer, administrator, or developer and want to implement the DevOps environment in your organization using Ansible, then this book is for you.
What You Will Learn
Get to the grips with the fundamentals of Ansible 2.2 and how you can benefit from leveraging Ansible for DevOps.
Adapt the DevOps process and learn how Ansible and other tools can be used to automate it.
Start automating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tasks using Ansible
Maximize the advantages of tools such as Docker, Jenkins, JIRA, and many more to implement the DevOps culture.
Integrate DevOps tools with Ansible
Extend Ansible using Python and create custom modules that integrate with unique specific technology stacks
Connect and control the states of various third-party applications such as GIT, SVN, Artifactory, Nexus, Jira, Hipchat, Slack, Nginx, and others
In Detail
Thinking about adapting the DevOps culture for your organization using a very simple, yet powerful automation tool, Ansible 2? Then this book is for you!
In this book, you will start with the role of Ansible in the DevOps module, which covers fundamental DevOps practices and how Ansible is leveraged by DevOps organizations to implement consistent and simplified configuration management and deployment. You will then move on to the next module, Ansible with DevOps, where you will understand Ansible fundamentals and how Ansible Playbooks can be used for simple configuration management and deployment tasks. After simpler tasks, you will move on to the third module, Ansible Syntax and Playbook Development, where you will learn advanced configuration management implementations, and use Ansible Vault to secure top-secret information in your organization. In this module, you will also learn about popular DevOps tools and the support that Ansible provides for them (MYSQL, NGINX, APACHE and so on). The last module, Scaling Ansible for the enterprise, is where you will integrate Ansible with CI and CD solutions and provision Docker containers using Ansible.
By the end of the book you will have learned to use Ansible to leverage your DevOps tasks.
Style and approach
A step-by-step guide to automating all DevOps stages with ease using Ansible