This has almost been 12 months in the making, but on the 20th of December 2018, I released my third book, Ansible Answers. As Ansible becomes one of the most popular tools for managing technology configuration management. I decide to write this book which uses interesting and real world projects to help you implement Ansible into your technology projects.
What The Book Covers
The book is separated into seven chapters which will allow you to build on your knowledge with each chapter, developing further as we move through the examples:
- Chapter 1, Configuration Management With Ansible, starts you off with the basics of Ansible, providing you details on how to install, configure your environment and how to get started working with different Ansible modules from the command line.
- Chapter 2, Ansible Playbooks, introduces you the main way Ansible organizes tasks and code in playbooks. It is the perfect progression from the information you learnt in the first chapter.
- ***Chapter 3, Extending Playbooks With Roles And Templates, provides you with the information you need to get you start breaking down your configurations and organizing your code in roles.
- Chapter 4, Custom Ansible Modules, Vaults And Galaxies, extends your knowledge on roles and playbooks by showing you how you start to create your own modules. It also shows you how you can keep secret data safe, while getting you started with Ansible Galaxy.
- Chapter 5, Working With Ansible In The Amazon Cloud, will then show you how to get started working with Amazon Web Services and allowing Ansible to do all the heaving lifting and hard work for you.
- Chapter 6, AWS Template And Cloudformation Scripts, will extend the work we did in the previous chapter allowing you to further enhance your roles to make them more reusable with Ansibles template function as well, we will also start to incorporate AWS Cloudformation scripts into our deployment code.
- Chapter 7, Ansible Checks and Variables, for the final chapter we will take you through how you can start to check your code before your deploy it to make sure you are limiting the number of errors during your configuration deployment.
The book aims to help in individuals as we are constantly pushed to do more with less. Configuration management has become a major cornerstone in allowing System Administrators and DevOps Engineers the ability to be more productive with the time they have.
From the outline about, you can see this book takes you from the basics of using Ansible to becoming proficient at implementing configuration management through Ansible into your own projects. This book hopes to bring you a unique approach to learning Ansible and configuration management while providing realistic and examples in its day to day use from server based to Amazon cloud based deployments.