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Practical Ansible - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805129974
Pages 420 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (3):
James Freeman James Freeman
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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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Fabio Alessandro Locati Fabio Alessandro Locati
Profile icon Fabio Alessandro Locati
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Fabio Alessandro Locati – commonly known as Fale – is an EMEA associate principal solutions architect at Red Hat, a public speaker, an author, and an open source contributor. His primary areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale has more than 15 years of working experience in IT, with many of them spent consulting for various organizations, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Fale has written Learning Ansible 2.7, Learning Ansible 2, and OpenStack Cloud Security, and has been part of the review process of multiple books.
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Daniel Oh Daniel Oh
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Daniel Oh is a principal technical marketing manager at Red Hat. He provides runtimes, frameworks, fast data access, and high-performance messaging in flexible, easy-to-use, cost-effective, open, and collaborative ways. He's also a CNCF ambassador and DevOps Institute ambassador who evangelizes how to design and develop cloud-native serverless microservices and deploy them to multi/hybrid cloud-native platforms based on CNCF projects. Daniel loves to share his developer experiences with DevOps folks in terms of how to evolve traditional microservices to cloud-native, event-driven, and serverless applications via technical workshops, brown bag sessions, hackathons, and hands-on labs across regions at many international conferences.
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Ansible 3. Chapter 2: Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible 4. Chapter 3: Defining Your Inventory 5. Chapter 4: Playbooks and Roles 6. Part 2:Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
7. Chapter 5: Creating and Consuming Modules 8. Chapter 6: Creating and Consuming Collections 9. Chapter 7: Creating and Consuming Plugins 10. Chapter 8: Coding Best Practices 11. Chapter 9: Advanced Ansible Topics 12. Part 3:Using Ansible in an Enterprise
13. Chapter 10: Network Automation with Ansible 14. Chapter 11: Container and Cloud Management 15. Chapter 12: Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies 16. Chapter 13: Getting Started with Ansible Automation Controller 17. Chapter 14: Execution Environments 18. Assessments 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  1. On which operating systems can you set up an Ansible control node? (There are multiple correct answers.)
    1. Ubuntu 22.04
    2. Fedora 35
    3. Windows Server 2022
    4. HP-UX
    5. Mainframe
  2. Which protocol does Ansible use to connect to non-Windows managed nodes for running tasks?
    1. HTTP
    2. HTTPS
    3. SSH
    4. TCP
    5. UDP
  3. To execute a specific module in the Ansible ad hoc command line, you need to use the -m option.
    1. True
    2. False
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Authors (3)

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Profile icon James Freeman
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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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Profile icon Fabio Alessandro Locati
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Fabio Alessandro Locati – commonly known as Fale – is an EMEA associate principal solutions architect at Red Hat, a public speaker, an author, and an open source contributor. His primary areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale has more than 15 years of working experience in IT, with many of them spent consulting for various organizations, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Fale has written Learning Ansible 2.7, Learning Ansible 2, and OpenStack Cloud Security, and has been part of the review process of multiple books.
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Profile icon Daniel Oh
LinkedIn
Daniel Oh is a principal technical marketing manager at Red Hat. He provides runtimes, frameworks, fast data access, and high-performance messaging in flexible, easy-to-use, cost-effective, open, and collaborative ways. He's also a CNCF ambassador and DevOps Institute ambassador who evangelizes how to design and develop cloud-native serverless microservices and deploy them to multi/hybrid cloud-native platforms based on CNCF projects. Daniel loves to share his developer experiences with DevOps folks in terms of how to evolve traditional microservices to cloud-native, event-driven, and serverless applications via technical workshops, brown bag sessions, hackathons, and hands-on labs across regions at many international conferences.
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