Ansible for DevOps

Cover
 Copyright
 Credits
 About the Author
 About the Reviewers
 www.PacktPub.com
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 1: Working with KVM Guests
 Introduction
 Installing and configuring a KVM
 Configuring resources
 Building guests
 Adding CPUs on the fly
 Adding RAM on the fly
 Adding disks on the fly
 Moving disks to another storage
 Moving VMs
 Backing up your VM metadata
 Chapter 2: Deploying RHEL ""En Masse""
 Introduction
 Creating a kickstart file
 Publishing your kickstart file using httpd
 Deploying a system using PXE
 Deploying a system using a custom boot ISO file. Chapter 3: Configuring Your NetworkIntroduction
 Creating a VLAN interface
 Creating a teamed interface
 Creating a bridge
 Configuring IPv4 settings
 Configuring your DNS resolvers
 Configuring static network routes
 Chapter 4: Configuring Your New System
 Introduction
 The systemd service and setting runlevels
 Starting and stopping systemd services
 Configuring the systemd journal for persistence
 Monitoring services using journalctl
 Configuring logrotate
 Managing time
 Configuring your boot environment
 Configuring smtp
 Chapter 5: Using SELinux
 Introduction
 Changing file contexts. Configuring SELinux booleansConfiguring SELinux port definitions
 Troubleshooting SELinux
 Creating SELinux policies
 Applying SELinux policies
 Chapter 6: Orchestrating with Ansible
 Introduction
 Install Ansible
 Configuring the Ansible inventory
 Creating a template for a kickstart file
 Creating a playbook to deploy a new VM with kickstart
 Creating a playbook to perform system configuration tasks
 Troubleshooting Ansible
 Chapter 7: Puppet Configuration Management
 Introduction
 Installing and configuring Puppet Master
 Installing and configuring the Puppet agent. Defining a simple module to configure timeDefining nodes and node grouping
 Deploying modules to single nodes and node groups
 Chapter 8: Yum and Repositories
 Introduction
 Managing yum history
 Creating a copy of an RHN repository
 Configuring additional repositories
 Setting up yum to automatically update
 Configuring logrotate for yum
 Recovering from a corrupted RPM database
 Chapter 9: Securing RHEL 7
 Introduction
 Installing and configuring IPA
 Securing the system login
 Configuring privilege escalation with sudo
 Secure the network with firewalld
 Using kdump and SysRq
 Using ABRT. Auditing the systemChapter 10: Monitoring and Performance Tuning
 Introduction
 Tuning your system's performance
 Setting up PCP --
Performance Co-Pilot
 Monitoring basic system performance
 Monitoring CPU performance
 Monitoring RAM performance
 Monitoring storage performance
 Monitoring network performance
 Index.