Use Ansible to configure your systems, deploy software, and orchestrate advanced IT tasks

• Get familiar with the fundamentals of Ansible 2.7
• Understand how to use Ansible Tower to scale your IT automation
• Gain insights into how to develop and test Ansible playbooks

Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With the release of Ansible 2.7, even complex tasks can be handled much more easily than before.

Learning Ansible 2.7 will help you take your first steps toward understanding the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible by introducing you to topics such as playbooks, modules, and the installation of Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), and Windows support. In addition to this, you will focus on various testing strategies, deployment, and orchestration to build on your knowledge. The book will then help you get accustomed to features including cleaner architecture, task blocks, and playbook parsing, which can help you to streamline automation processes. Next, you will learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) before gaining insights into the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy. This will help you to use Ansible to interact with different operating systems and improve your working efficiency.

By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the Ansible skills you need to automate complex tasks for your organization.

• Create a web server using Ansible
• Write a custom module and test it
• Deploy playbooks in the production environment
• Troubleshoot networks using Ansible
• Use Ansible Galaxy and Ansible Tower during deployment
• Deploy an application with Ansible on AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean

This beginner-level book is for system administrators who want to automate their organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7. No prior knowledge of Ansible is required