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Published inSep 2022

PublisherPackt

ISBN-139781803235417

Edition1st Edition

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DevOps

Author (1)

Gineesh Madapparambath

Technical requirements

The following are the technical requirements to proceed with this chapter:

A basic understanding of the Linux OS and how to handle basic operations in Linux
One or more Linux machines

The codes and snippets used in the chapter are tested in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL8). All the Ansible code, Ansible playbooks, commands, and snippets for this chapter can be found in the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Ansible-for-Real-life-Automation/tree/main/Chapter-01.

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Author (1)

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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