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Published inSep 2022
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ISBN-139781803235417
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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, we have learned about the Ansible collection for Kubernetes cluster and resource management. We started by covering the basics of Kubernetes components and discussed how to use Kubespray to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and their supported features.

After that, we learned the method of connecting a Kubernetes cluster to Ansible to automate cluster operations. We have used the Kubernetes Ansible collection to deploy applications and scale Deployments. We have also learned how to execute commands inside a running Kubernetes Pod using Ansible, which can be utilized for validation and troubleshooting purposes. This chapter has provided a brief introduction to Kubernetes automation using Ansible and other important information, such as Kubernetes content collection and methods of connecting Ansible to Kubernetes.

In the next chapter, you will learn about the different available methods of integrating your CI/CD and communication tools using Ansible...

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Published in: Sep 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803235417

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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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