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Published inSep 2022
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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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Managing multi-container applications using Ansible

In this section, you will use the well-known Content Management System (CMS) application stack known as WordPress (https://wordpress.org). The WordPress application is based on multiple application stacks, including PHP, a web server, and a database. The WordPress application is available as a container image (https://hub.docker.com/_/wordpress). For the database, we will deploy another container using MariaDB (https://hub.docker.com/_/mariadb).

Please refer to the Chapter-10/deploy-wordpress-on-docker.yaml file to see the Ansible playbook for deploying the WordPress CMS using Ansible. Follow these steps:

  1. We declared the essential parameters on top of the playbook, as shown in the following screenshot. Remember to store sensitive data such as database usernames and passwords using Ansible Vault (or Credential in Ansible Automation Controller) or other secret management services. These variables are then passed to the container...
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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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