Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

From organizations to inventories job templates and workflows understand how pieces of Ansible Controller are created managed and work together and explore CI/CD integrations interaction with Gitlab Github and more Key Features * Curated by a Senior Consultant at Red Hat with real world examples to maximize your use of Tower * Deep dive into Controller and understand how the different pieces interact * Filled with best practices to help you simplify management of Ansible Tower Book Description Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (RHAAP) is an integrated solution for operationalizing Ansible across your team organization and enterprise. Ansible tower makes Ansible run against Linux windows network devices and many more. It helps standardize how automation is deployed initiated delegated and audited. Demystifying Ansible Automation Controller is a comprehensive reference for those new to Ansible Tower. It will teach you to simplify management of Ansible Tower. There are a few ways and forms to get Tower installed. You will begin by going through these options their pros and cons and some initial configuration. You will learn each object in Ansible tower how it interacts with other objects and best practices for defining and managing those objects to save time. Now that all the pieces have been created you will learn to maintain all of the pieces. You will also be able to monitor workflows with CI/CD playbooks and understand howTower integrates with other services like Gitlab Github and many more. The book is filled with real world examples of how to maximize your use of Tower. Towards the end you will be well versed with maintenance & troubleshooting best practices. By the end of this book you will know how to manipulate manage and deploy any playbook and option to Ansible tower. What you will learn * Explore the different parts of the tower and learn to maintain them * Understand how to backup and restore a tower install * Launch and configure Basic and advanced workflow and job template jobs * Create your own execution environment using CI/CD pipelines * Interact with Git Red Hat Authentication Server and logging services * Understand how to integrate Tower with Services Catalog * Use Automation Mesh to scale Automation Controller Who This Book Is For This book is for IT administrators DevOps Engineers Cloud Engineers and Automation Engineers seeking to understand and maintain the controller part of Ansible Automation Platform. If you have basic knowledge of Ansible and the ability to either setup an OpenShift cluster or a machine that can run Ansible Controller then this book is meant for you.