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Ansible for Real-Life Automation

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235417
Pages 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Gineesh Madapparambath Gineesh Madapparambath
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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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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Using Ansible as Your Automation Tool
2. Chapter 1: Ansible Automation – Introduction 3. Chapter 2: Starting with Simple Automation 4. Chapter 3: Automating Your Daily Jobs 5. Chapter 4: Exploring Collaboration in Automation Development 6. Part 2: Finding Use Cases and Integrations
7. Chapter 5: Expanding Your Automation Landscape 8. Chapter 6: Automating Microsoft Windows and Network Devices 9. Chapter 7: Managing Your Virtualization and Cloud Platforms 10. Chapter 8: Helping the Database Team with Automation 11. Chapter 9: Implementing Automation in a DevOps Workflow 12. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Using Ansible 13. Chapter 11: Managing Kubernetes Using Ansible 14. Chapter 12: Integrating Ansible with Your Tools 15. Chapter 13: Using Ansible for Secret Management 16. Part 3: Managing Your Automation Development Flow with Best Practices
17. Chapter 14: Keeping Automation Simple and Efficient 18. Chapter 15: Automating Non-Standard Platforms and Operations 19. Chapter 16: Ansible Automation Best Practices for Production 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Vault credentials in the Ansible Automation Platform

When you run your playbooks from the Web UI of the automation controller, then you have similar options to provide the Vault secret from the WebUI. We can either keep the Vault secret inside a Vault credential or we can select the Prompt on launch option. The latter involves interactive input (such as --ask-vault-password in the Ansible command-line execution) and will prompt for the Vault secret when you execute the Job Template from the automation controller’s WebUI.

The Ansible automation controller

The Ansible automation controller is the control plane for the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). When you migrate to AAP 2, the automation controller will be upgraded to include Ansible Tower. Refer to Chapter 12, Integrating Ansible with Your Tools, for more details.

In the following section, we will learn how to create Vault credentials in the Ansible automation controller GUI and attach them to the Job Template...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Gineesh Madapparambath
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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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