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Ansible for Real-Life Automation

You're reading from  Ansible for Real-Life Automation

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235417
Pages 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Author (1):
Gineesh Madapparambath Gineesh Madapparambath
Profile icon Gineesh Madapparambath

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

Managing automation content in a Git server

In this section, you will learn how to create a GitHub (github.com) account, create, install, and configure the repositories, and keep Ansible automation content inside the repositories.

Setting up a GitHub account

If you already have a GitHub personal or enterprise account, then you can skip the account creation steps:

  1. Open your web browser and go to github.com, then click the Signup button in the top-right corner of the page.
  2. Enter your email address and a password and username on the next screen, as shown in Figure 4.4. GitHub will tell you whether the username is available as usernames in GitHub must be unique:

Figure 4.4 – Creating a GitHub account

  1. Click Continue and finish the simple puzzle (CAPTCHA) on the next screen to verify your identity. Once done, create your account.
  2. On the next screen, GitHub will ask you for the one-time code that you will receive on your registered...
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