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Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818780
Pages 540 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
James Freeman James Freeman
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Jesse Keating Jesse Keating
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Ansible Overview and Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: The System Architecture and Design of Ansible 3. Chapter 2: Migrating from Earlier Ansible Versions 4. Chapter 3: Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible 5. Chapter 4: Ansible and Windows – Not Just for Linux 6. Chapter 5: Infrastructure Management for Enterprises with AWX 7. Section 2: Writing and Troubleshooting Ansible Playbooks
8. Chapter 6: Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates 9. Chapter 7: Controlling Task Conditions 10. Chapter 8: Composing Reusable Ansible Content with Roles 11. Chapter 9: Troubleshooting Ansible 12. Chapter 10: Extending Ansible 13. Section 3: Orchestration with Ansible
14. Chapter 11: Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Deployments 15. Chapter 12: Infrastructure Provisioning 16. Chapter 13: Network Automation 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing Ansible from scratch

As discussed in the preceding section, Ansible 4.3 is largely packaged and distributed using a Python package manager called pip. This is likely to change in due course, but at the time of writing, the key installation method you will need to use is to install via pip. Now, it's fair to say that most modern Linux distributions already come with Python and pip pre-installed. If for any reason you get stuck and need to install it, the process is well documented on the official website here: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/.

Once you have pip installed, the process of installing Ansible is as simple as running this command, and the beauty is, the command is the same on all operating systems (though note that on some operating systems, your pip command might be called pip3 to differentiate between the Python 2.7 and Python 3 releases that may coexist):

sudo pip install ansible

There are, of course, a few variations on this command...

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