Learn Ansible: Automate your cloud infrastructure, security configuration and application deployment with Ansible, 2nd Ed

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Introducing, Installing, and Running Ansible
Chapter 1: Installing and Running Ansible
	Technical requirements
	My story: part one
	Ansible’s story
		What is Ansible?
		Ansible, the software
	Ansible versus other tools
		Declarative versus imperative
		Configuration versus orchestration
		Looking at some code
	My story: part two
	Installing and running Ansible
		Installing on macOS
		Installing on Linux
		Installing on Windows 11
	Launching a virtual machine
	An introduction to playbooks
		Host inventories
		Playbooks
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 2: Exploring Ansible Galaxy
	Technical requirements
	The Ansible release life cycle
		The life cycle of a release
	Introduction to Ansible Galaxy
		What is a role?
	Publishing to and using Ansible Galaxy roles
		Publishing your roles to Ansible Galaxy
		Using roles from Ansible Galaxy
	Ansible collections
	Ansible Galaxy commands
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 3: The Ansible Commands
	Inbuilt commands
		Ansible
		The ansible-config command
		The ansible-console command
		The ansible-inventory command
		What is ansible-pull?
		Using the ansible-vault command
	Third-party commands
		The ansible-inventory-grapher command
	Summary
	Further reading
Part 2: Deploying Applications
Chapter 4: Deploying a LAMP Stack
	Technical requirements
	The playbook structure
	The LAMP stack
		The common role
		The Apache role
		The MariaDB role
		The PHP role
	The LAMP playbook
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 5: Deploying WordPress
	Technical requirements
	Preinstallation tasks
	The stack_install role
		Enabling the NGINX repository
	The stack_config role
		WordPress system user
		NGINX configuration
	The wordpress role
		Some facts
		WordPress CLI installation
		Creating the WordPress database
		Downloading, configuring, and installing WordPress
		WordPress plugins installation
	Running the WordPress playbook
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 6: Targeting Multiple Distributions
	Technical requirements
	Debian and Red Hat
	Multi-distribution considerations
		The Stack Install role
		The Stack Config role
		The WordPress role
	Adapting the roles
		Operating system family
		The Stack Install role
		The Stack Config role
		The WordPress role
	Running the playbook
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 7: Ansible Windows Modules
	Technical requirements
	Launching a Windows server in Azure
	Ansible preparation
		The ping module
		The setup module
	The Windows Playbook roles
		Enabling Windows features
		Creating a user
		Installing applications using Chocolatey
		Information role
	Running the Playbook
	Summary
	Further reading
Part 3: Network and Cloud Automation
Chapter 8: Ansible Network Modules
	Manufacturer and device support
		The collections
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 9: Moving to the Cloud
	Technical requirements
	An introduction to Microsoft Azure
	Launching instances in Microsoft Azure
		Preparing Ansible for Microsoft Azure
		Reviewing the variables
		The resource group task
		The networking tasks
	Bootstrapping WordPress
		The site and host environment files
		The secrets role
		Other changes
	Running the playbook
	Summary
Chapter 10: Building Out a Cloud Network
	Technical requirements
	An introduction to AWS
	Amazon VPC overview
	Creating an access key and secret
	Getting Ansible ready for targeting AWS
	The AWS playbook
		The playbook variables
		The VPC role
		The subnets role
		The gateway role
		The security group’s role
	Running the playbook
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 11: Highly Available Cloud Deployments
	Technical requirements
	Planning the deployment
		Costing the deployment
		WordPress considerations and high availability
	The Playbook
		The variables
		EC2 configuration
		The Playbook roles
	Running the Playbook
		Playbook run highlights
	Terminating all the resources
	Summary
Chapter 12: Building Out a VMware Deployment
	Technical requirements
	An introduction to VMware
	The VMware REST modules
		VMware REST appliance modules
		VMware REST content modules
		vCenter modules
	Summary
Part 4: Ansible Workflows
Chapter 13: Scanning Your Ansible Playbooks
	Technical requirements
	Why scan your playbooks?
	Docker overview and installation
		Installing Docker Desktop on macOS
		Installing Docker Desktop on Windows
		Installing Docker Desktop on Linux
	Exploring Checkov
	Exploring KICS
		Running the scan
		Reviewing the results
		Re-running the scan
		Output files
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 14: Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible
	Technical requirements
	The scanning tools
		OpenSCAP
		WPScan
		OWASP ZAP
	The playbook
		The common role
		The Docker role
		The WordPress roles
		The scan role
		The OpenSCAP role
		Running the playbook
	Summary
Chapter 15: Using Ansible with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps
	Technical requirements
	GitHub Actions
		Preparation
		Understanding the GitHub Action workflow
		Committing the code
	Azure DevOps
		Creating and configuring our project
		Cloning the repository and uploading the code
		The Azure DevOps pipeline
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 16: Introducing Ansible AWX and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
	Technical requirements
	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform versus AWX
	Ansible AWX
		Deploying and configuring the Ansible AWX Operator
		Setting up our playbook
		Running our playbooks
		Terminating the Kubernetes cluster
		Playbook considerations
		Ansible AWX’s advantages and disadvantages
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 17: Next Steps with Ansible
	Technical requirements
	Integrating with third-party services
		Slack
		Other integrations
		Summary of third-party services
	The Ansible playbook debugger
		Debugging the task
		Summary of the Ansible debugger
	Some real-world examples
		Automating a complex deployment
		Combining Ansible and other tools
	Summary
Index
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