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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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In this chapter, you learned about the enterprise automation solution called Red Hat AAP. First, you learned about the benefits of using AAP and its features. You also learned about the different components of AAP, such as its execution environment, automation controller, automation mesh, and Automation Hub.

After that, you learned more about the automation controller by creating different resources such as organizations, projects, inventories, managed nodes and groups, credential job templates with survey forms and extra variables, and more. You also learned how to integrate the Jenkins CI/CD tool with Red Hat AAP to trigger the jobs automatically as part of the build and deployment pipeline.

Finally, you explored the notification options in the automation controller and tested them with different types of notifications such as email and Slack. All this knowledge will help you implement and manage automation using AAP and integrate AAP with different tools in your environment...

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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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