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Published inDec 2021
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ISBN-139781801818780
Edition4th Edition
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James Freeman
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James Freeman

James Freeman is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than a decade of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, open source, and AWS. As part of this work, he frequently introduces Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. In addition, he has co-authored five books and one video training course on Ansible, facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.
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Jesse Keating
Jesse Keating
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Jesse Keating

Jesse Keating is an accomplished Ansible user, contributor, and presenter. He has been an active member of the Linux and open source community for over 15 years. He has firsthand experience involving a variety of IT activities, software development, and large-scale system administration. He has presented at numerous conferences and meetups, and has written many articles on a variety of topics.
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Building containers with Ansible

As we mentioned at the beginning of the previous section, the world of containers has moved on greatly since the previous edition of this book was published. Although Docker is still a massively popular container technology, new and improved technologies have become favored, and indeed natively integrated into Linux operating systems. Canonical (the publisher of Ubuntu) is championing the LXC container environment, while Red Hat (the owner of Ansible) is championing Buildah and Podman.

If you read the third edition of this book, you will know that we covered a technology called Ansible Container, which was used to directly integrate Ansible with Docker and remove the need for glue steps such as adding hosts to the in-memory inventory, having two separate plays for instantiating the container, and building the container image contents. Ansible Container has now been deprecated, and all development work has ceased (according to their GitHub page...

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James Freeman

James Freeman is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than a decade of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, open source, and AWS. As part of this work, he frequently introduces Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. In addition, he has co-authored five books and one video training course on Ansible, facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.
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Jesse Keating

Jesse Keating is an accomplished Ansible user, contributor, and presenter. He has been an active member of the Linux and open source community for over 15 years. He has firsthand experience involving a variety of IT activities, software development, and large-scale system administration. He has presented at numerous conferences and meetups, and has written many articles on a variety of topics.
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