
Daniel Oh James Freeman Fabio Alessandro Locati
Ansible enables you to automate software provisioning, configuration management, and application roll-outs, and can be used as a deployment and orchestration tool. While Ansible provides simple yet powerful features to automate multi-layer environments using agentless communication, it can also solve other critical IT challenges, such as ensuring continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) with zero downtime.In this book, you'll work with Ansible 2.9 and learn to solve complex issues quickly with the help of task-oriented scenarios. You'll start by installing and configuring Ansible on Linux and macOS to automate monotonous and repetitive IT tasks and get to grips with concepts such as playbooks, inventories, and network modules. As you progress, you'll gain insight into the YAML syntax and learn how to port between Ansible versions. In addition to this, you'll also understand how Ansible enables you to orchestrate multi-layer environments such as networks, containers, and the cloud.By the end of this Ansible book, you'll be well - versed in writing playbooks and other related Ansible code to overcome just about all of your IT challenges, from infrastructure-as-code provisioning to application deployments, and even handling the mundane day-to-day maintenance tasks that take up so much valuable time.
比较详尽的介绍了ansible的源码,从1.1到1.95再到2.8,都一脉相承。可以看出作者下了很深功夫去研究。 本书对于初学者来说非常不错!从adhoc到playbook再到role,从module到plug-in再到最佳实践,企业实践中也比较完整的阐述了,网路设备管理和Tower的用法。 目前ansible的版本是2.10,虽然作者是基于2.9版本展开的,但也提到了升级的问题。