Authors Bas Meijer, Lorin Hochstein, and Rene Moser show you how to write playbooks (Ansible's configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool's real power: built-in declarative modules. You'll learn how Ansible has all the functionality you need and the simplicity you desire.
Explore Ansible configuration management and deployment
Learn how to apply Ansible best practices
Understand how to use the new collections format
Create a local development environment
Generate reusable Ansible content for open source middleware
Build container images, images for cloud instances, and cloud computing instances
Ready to use Ansible for mission-critical work? With this new edition, you'll learn how to eliminate the guesswork and assumptions when using software engineering methods to validate code quality.