Practical Ansible: Configuration Management from Start to Finish

Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Configuration Management with Ansible
	Getting Started with Configuration Management
		Why Ansible?
	Getting Started with Ansible
		Installing Ansible
		Ansible Support for SSH
	Finally, Our First Ansible Command
	Basic Ansible Playbooks
	Ansible Configuration and Inventory Files
	Running Ansible Modules
		Ping
		Setup
		Git
		Shell
		Apt (or Yum)
		Package
		Service
		Get_url
		File
		User
		Find
	Running Ansible on Different Servers
	Different Versions of Ansible
	Ansible Projects
		Basic LAMP Stack
		Splunk Server Environment
	Summary
Chapter 2: Ansible Playbooks
	Ansible and YAML Syntax
	Command-Line Modules to Ansible Playbooks
	Ansible Playbook Verbose Output
	Ansible Syntax in Finer Detail
		Hosts and Remote Users
		Tasks
		Notify
	Adding More Playbook Functionality with Variables and Loops
	Plugging In Our LAMP Stack
	Organizing Larger Playbooks with Include and Import
	Summary
Chapter 3: Extending Playbooks with Roles and Templates
	Ansible Roles
		Creating the Web Server Role
		Creating the Database Server Role
	Ansible Command-Line Variables and Options
	Expanding Our LAMP with Django
	Conditional Tasks in Ansible
	Using Tags to Run Specific Tasks
	Summary
Chapter 4: Custom Ansible Modules, Vaults, and Galaxies
	Keeping Secrets with Ansible Vault
	Ansible Galaxy
		Searching and Working with Ansible Galaxy Roles
		Downloading and Installing Multiple Roles from Galaxy
		Moving Further with Ansible Galaxy
		Contributing to Ansible Galaxy
	Building Your Own Ansible Modules
	Summary
Chapter 5: Working with Ansible in the Amazon Cloud
	So Why Amazon Web Services?
		AWS Is Not Free
		AWS Pricing
	Gaining Access to AWS
	Using Environment Variables to Access AWS
	Ansible AWS Modules to Implement Our New Project
		Our New Splunk Implementation Project
	Creating Our AWS Instance
	Deploying Splunk with User Data
	Failures on Amazon Web Services
	Summary
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Chapter 6: Ansible Templates and CloudFormation Scripts
	One Final Word on AWS Costs
	Ansible Templates in AWS Instances
	Pulling Code with Ansible
	Ansible Pull GitHub Repository Deployment Explained
	Build AWS Images for Quicker Deployments
	Using CloudFormation with Ansible
	Summary
Chapter 7: Ansible Troubleshooting and Variables
	AWS Modules Run Differently
	Using the Debug Module with Registered Variables
	Ansible Facts
	Ansible Galaxy README Files
	Testing Ansible As You Develop
		Ansible Start At Option
		Ansible Step
		Ansible Lint
		List Ansible Tasks
		Ansible Check Mode
		Ansible Playbook Syntax Check
	Ansible Connections Without SSH
	Migrating to Ansible
	Summary
Chapter 8: Testing Ansible with Molecule
	Ansible Testing with the Molecule Testing Framework
	Using Molecule with Code Deployed to AWS
	Update Tests to Match Our AWS Instance
	CICD with TravisCI
	Using AWS on TravisCI
	Summary
Chapter 9: Managing Large Server Environments
	Managing Inventory and Hosts Files
		Using Multiple Hosts Files
		Using Ranges in Hosts Files
		Adding Variables in Hosts Files
		Working with Dynamic Inventory
	Introducing Ansible Tower
	Installing AWX Ansible Tower
	Getting Started with AWX Ansible Tower
		Main Dashboard
		The AWX Ansible Tower Main Menu
		Set Up Your Organization and Users
		Introducing Projects
			Setting Up a Project
			Inventories and Hosts
			Creating Templates for a Project
			Running Your Job for a Project
	Summary
Index