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Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

A definitive way to manage Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Tower

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Oct 2022

Explore Ansible Automation Platform and understand how the different pieces interact to standardize and scale automation

Key Features

  • Curated by a senior consultant at Red Hat with real-world examples to maximize use of Ansible Automation Platform
  • Use roles and modules to create interactive playbooks in Ansible Automation Platform
  • Discover best practices for simplifying management of Ansible Automation Platform

Book Description

While you can use any automation software to simplify task automation, scaling automation to suit your growing business needs becomes difficult using only a command-line tool. Ansible Automation Platform standardizes how automation is deployed, initiated, delegated, and audited, and this comprehensive guide shows you how you can simplify and scale its management.
The book starts by taking you through the ways to get Ansible Automation Platform installed, their pros and cons, and the initial configuration. You’ll learn about each object in the platform, how it interacts with other objects, as well as best practices for defining and managing objects to save time. You’ll see how to maintain the created pieces with infrastructure as code. As you advance, you’ll monitor workflows with CI/CD playbooks and understand how Ansible Automation Platform integrates with many other services such as GitLab and GitHub.
By the end of this book, you’ll have worked through real-world examples to make the most of the platform while learning how to manipulate, manage, and deploy any playbook to Ansible Automation Platform.

What you will learn

  • Get the hang of different parts of Ansible Automation Platform and their maintenance
  • Back up and restore an installation of Ansible Automation Platform
  • Launch and configure basic and advanced workflows and jobs
  • Create your own execution environment using CI/CD pipelines
  • Interact with Git, Red Hat Authentication Server, and logging services
  • Integrate the Automation controller with services catalog
  • Use Automation Mesh to scale Automation Controller

Who this book is for

This book is for IT administrators, DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, and automation engineers seeking to understand and maintain the controller part of Ansible Automation Platform. If you have basic knowledge of Ansible, can set up a virtual machine, or have OpenShift experience, and want to know more about scaling Ansible, this book is for you.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to Ansible Automation Platform
  2. Installing Ansible Automation Platform
  3. Installing Ansible Automation Platform on OpenShift
  4. Configuring Settings and Authentication
  5. Configuring the Basics after Installation
  6. Configuring Role-Based Access Control
  7. Creating Inventory, and Other Inventory Pieces
  8. Creating Execution Environments
  9. Automation Hub Management
  10. Creating Job Templates and Workflows
  11. Creating Advanced Workflows and Jobs
  12. Using CI/CD to Interact with Automation Controller
  13. Integration with Other Services
  14. Automating at Scale with Automation Mesh
  15. Using Automation Services Catalog
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PDF ISBN: 978-1-80323-101-3
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2022 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 314
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
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