Automate Everything with Ansible

Ansible has emerged as the go-to solution for IT automation, streamlining complex processes and enhancing efficiency across diverse environments. This book is your definitive guide to becoming a skilled automation engineer and landing your dream job.

This book offers a brief overview of Ansible, starting with Ansible basics and then exploring its core features. It provides some practical examples of its core concepts like configuration management, application deployment, Kubernetes deployment, and Ansible for DevOps, helping its readers get some hands-on experience. The journey then moves to specialized fields like cloud provisioning for AWS and Azure, configuration management of Linux and Windows Servers, and application deployment. The latter half of the book covers advanced topics such as network and security automation, DevOps practices, and managing Docker and Kubernetes containers, culminating with an introduction to Ansible Tower.

By the end of this book, you will be ready to begin your production journey. It will also help you understand the working of the production environment. After reading this book, you will be able to automate repeated tasks in your IT stream. You will also gain the crucial strategies needed to excel in interviews, secure a great job, and succeed in the corporate world.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
● Understand the basics of Ansible and its core concepts.
● Create custom inventories and execute your first playbook.
● Create intuitive and reusable user-friendly Ansible roles.
● Learn to automate your repetitive tasks using Ansible.
● Implement Ansible for DevOps and security practices.
● Perform configuration management using key Ansible modules.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
This book is for new and seasoned IT professionals, including DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, and system administrators, who are looking to learn and implement Ansible. This book is your definitive guide to becoming a skilled automation engineer and landing your dream job.

1. Getting Started with Ansible
2. Introducing Ansible and Ansible Tower
3. Working with Ansible
4. Creation and Execution of Ansible Playbooks
5. Automating AWS Cloud Provisioning with Ansible
6. Ansible for Cloud Provisioning Microsoft Azure
7. Configuration Management
8. App Deployment
9. Routine Use of Ansible
10. Ansible for DevOps
11. Ansible with Network Automation
12. Ansible for Security
13. Installation of Kubernetes
14. Migration to Ansible Tower
15. Finding and Landing a Job

Ashutosh Chauhan has been working as a network developer engineer for more than 14 years, playing central roles in numerous projects as a technical leader and network developer engineer, delivering projects using Ansible and Python for big companies, including successful projects in Europe and the United States. Currently, he is the lead of engineering at Genpact. He is also the founder of a successful company. Ashutosh is also an accomplished graduate completing a degree in electronics and communication engineering. In the meantime, he successfully got many Cisco certifications and Silver peak certifications in network security engineering. Furthermore, the author participates in online training programs and teaches many students. The author also writes technical articles on Ansible and related topics.