Published by Packt
This is the code repository for Ansible Quick Start Guide, published by Packt.
Control and monitor infrastructures of any size, physical or virtual
Configuration Management (CM) tools help administrators reduce their workload. Ansible is one of the best Configuration Management tools, and can act as an orchestrator for managing other CMs. This book is the easiest way to learn how to use Ansible as an orchestrator and a Configuration Management tool. With this book, you will learn how to control and monitor computer and network infrastructures of any size,physical or virtual.
This book covers the following exciting features: *Implement Playbook YAML scripts and its capacities to simplify day-to-day tasks *Setup Static and Dynamic Inventory *Use Ansible predefined modules for Linux, Windows, networking, and virtualisation administration *Organize and configure the host filesystem using storage and files modules *Implement Ansible to enable infrastructure automated configuration management
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All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
sudo subsription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-ansible-2.5-rpms
Following is what you need for this book This book is targeted at System Administrators and Network Administrators who want to use Ansible to automate an infrastructure. No knowledge of Ansible is required.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-8).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 2,3,4,7,8 | Virtual Box 5.2.12, Vagrant 2.2.1, Openssh-server 7.6p1, Cisco Packet Tracer 7.2 | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 5,6 | Virtual Box 5.2.12, Vagrant 2.2.1, Openssh-server 7.6p1, Cisco Packet Tracer 7.2 | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
Mohamed Alibi is a Linux system administrator who works at the European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI. His area of specialization is mass virtual machine and container provisioning and infrastructure administration for medium-sized distributed bioinformatics training facilities. He always keeps abreast of the latest innovations and developments in new technologies to solve his daily challenges. He holds an MSc in Networking and Computer Sciences in a collaborative program with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the IPT of Tunis, where he expanded his expertise in grid computing data management between the NCSA and IGB under the NIH project H3ABioNet. He published his first book in 2015 with Packt, called Mastering CentOS 7 Linux Server.
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