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Published inSep 2022
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ISBN-139781803235417
Edition1st Edition
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Gineesh Madapparambath
Gineesh Madapparambath
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Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
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In this chapter, you have learned about the core concepts of Ansible, how Ansible works, and the key terminology, including Ansible inventory, playbooks, tasks, Ansible control node, managed nodes, and modules. You have also learned about basic Ansible installation, configuration, and deployment, and the importance of managed node configuration, SSH key credentials, and passwordless SSH.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to start with simple automation playbooks and execution. Then, you will learn how to find suitable Ansible modules for playbook development and remote node connection methods.

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Author (1)

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Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
Read more about Gineesh Madapparambath