Ansible Quick Start Guide

Configure Ansible and start coding YAML playbooks using the appropriate modulesKey FeaturesCreate and use Ansible Playbook to script and organise management tasksBenefit from the Ansible community roles and modules to resolve complex and niche tasksWrite configuration management code to automate infrastructureBook DescriptionConfiguration Management (CM) tools help administrators reduce their workload. Ansible is one of the best Configuration Management tools and can act as an orchestrator for managing other CMs. This book is the easiest way to learn how to use Ansible as an orchestrator and a Configuration Management tool. With this book you will learn how to control and monitor computer and network infrastructures of any sizephysical or virtual. You will begin by learning about the Ansible client-server architecture. To get started you will set up and configure an Ansible server. You will then go through the major features of Ansible: Playbook and Inventory. Then we will look at Ansible systems and network modules. You will then use Ansible to enable infrastructure automated configuration management followed by best practices for using Ansible roles and community modules. Finally you will explore Ansible features such as Ansible Vault Ansible Containers and Ansible plugins.What you will learnImplement Playbook YAML scripts and its capacities to simplify day-to-day tasksSetup Static and Dynamic InventoryUse Ansible predefined modules for Linux Windows networking and virtualisation administrationOrganize and configure the host filesystem using storage and files modulesImplement Ansible to enable infrastructure automated configuration managementSimplify infrastructure administrationSearch and install new roles and enable them within AnsibleSecure your data using Ansible VaultWho this book is forThis book is targeted at System Administrators and Network Administrators who want to use Ansible to automate an infrastructure. No knowledge of Ansible is required. About the Author Mohamed Alibi is a Linux system administrator who works at the European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI. His area of specialization is mass virtual machine and container provisioning and infrastructure administration for medium-sized distributed bioinformatics training facilities. He always keeps abreast of the latest innovations and developments in new technologies to solve his daily challenges. He holds an MSc in Networking and Computer Sciences in a collaborative program with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the IPT of Tunis where he expanded his expertise in grid computing data management between the NCSA and IGB under the NIH project H3ABioNet. He published his first book in 2015 with Packt called Mastering CentOS 7 Linux Server.