This book is geared toward Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers who are responsible for these tasks:Automating configuration managementEnsuring consistent and repeatable application deploymentProvisioning and deployment of development, testing, and production serversIntegrating with DevOps continuous integration/continuous delivery workflowsBOOK OBJECTIVES
IT automation is key to managing large numbers of systems and applications efficiently and consistently at scale. This Book develops the skills needed to efficiently operate and more easily scale the organization's dynamic IT infrastructure, accelerate application time to value, and rapidly adapt and implement needed innovation through DevOps practices.
As a result of attending this Book, you should be able to use Ansible for the purpose of automation, configuration, and management. You should be able to demonstrate these skills:Install and configure Ansible or Red Hat Ansible Engine on a control node.Create and manage inventories of managed hosts, as well as prepare them for Ansible automation.Run individual ad hoc automation tasks from the command line.Write Ansible Playbooks to consistently automate multiple tasks and apply them to managed hosts.Parameterize playbooks using variables and facts, and protect sensitive data with Ansible Vault.Write and reuse existing Ansible roles to simplify playbook creation and reuse code.Automate common Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration tasks using Ansible.