Ansible Quick Start Guide

Configure Ansible and start coding YAML playbooks using the appropriate modules


Key Features

Create and use Ansible Playbook to script and organise management tasks

Benefit from the Ansible community roles and modules to resolve complex and niche tasks

Write configuration management code to automate infrastructure


Book Description

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.

You will begin by learning about the Ansible client-server architecture. To get started, you will set up and configure an Ansible server. You will then go through the major features of Ansible: Playbook and Inventory. Then, we will look at Ansible systems and network modules.

You will then use Ansible to enable infrastructure automated configuration management, followed by best practices for using Ansible roles and community modules.

Finally, you will explore Ansible features such as Ansible Vault, Ansible Containers, and Ansible plugins.


What you will learn

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

Simplify infrastructure administration

Search and install new roles and enable them within Ansible

Secure your data using Ansible Vault


Who this book is for

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.