Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2
Author: Jonathan McAllister
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-07-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 178712651X

Leverage the power of Ansible 2 and related tools and scale DevOps processes About This Book Learn how to use Ansible playbooks along with YAML and JINJA to create efficient DevOps solutions Use Ansible to provision and automate Docker containers and images Learn the fundamentals of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery and how to leverage Ansible to implement these modern DevOps Learn the fundamentals of creating custom Ansible modules Learn the fundamentals of Ansible Galaxy Follow along step-by-step as we teach you to scale Ansible for your DevOps processes Who This Book Is For If you are a DevOps engineer, administrator, or developer and want to implement the DevOps environment in your organization using Ansible, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn Get to the grips with the fundamentals of Ansible 2.2 and how you can benefit from leveraging Ansible for DevOps. Adapt the DevOps process and learn how Ansible and other tools can be used to automate it. Start automating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tasks using Ansible Maximize the advantages of tools such as Docker, Jenkins, JIRA, and many more to implement the DevOps culture. Integrate DevOps tools with Ansible Extend Ansible using Python and create custom modules that integrate with unique specific technology stacks Connect and control the states of various third-party applications such as GIT, SVN, Artifactory, Nexus, Jira, Hipchat, Slack, Nginx, and others In Detail Thinking about adapting the DevOps culture for your organization using a very simple, yet powerful automation tool, Ansible 2? Then this book is for you! In this book, you will start with the role of Ansible in the DevOps module, which covers fundamental DevOps practices and how Ansible is leveraged by DevOps organizations to implement consistent and simplified configuration management and deployment. You will then move on to the next module, Ansible with DevOps, where you will understand Ansible fundamentals and how Ansible Playbooks can be used for simple configuration management and deployment tasks. After simpler tasks, you will move on to the third module, Ansible Syntax and Playbook Development, where you will learn advanced configuration management implementations, and use Ansible Vault to secure top-secret information in your organization. In this module, you will also learn about popular DevOps tools and the support that Ansible provides for them (MYSQL, NGINX, APACHE and so on). The last module, Scaling Ansible for the enterprise, is where you will integrate Ansible with CI and CD solutions and provision Docker containers using Ansible. By the end of the book you will have learned to use Ansible to leverage your DevOps tasks. Style and approach A step-by-step guide to automating all DevOps stages with ease using Ansible

Security Automation with Ansible 2

Security Automation with Ansible 2
Author: Madhu Akula
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2017-12-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1788398726

Automate security-related tasks in a structured, modular fashion using the best open source automation tool available About This Book Leverage the agentless, push-based power of Ansible 2 to automate security tasks Learn to write playbooks that apply security to any part of your system This recipe-based guide will teach you to use Ansible 2 for various use cases such as fraud detection, network security, governance, and more Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator or a DevOps engineer with responsibility for finding loop holes in your system or application, then this book is for you. It's also useful for security consultants looking to automate their infrastructure's security model. What You Will Learn Use Ansible playbooks, roles, modules, and templating to build generic, testable playbooks Manage Linux and Windows hosts remotely in a repeatable and predictable manner See how to perform security patch management, and security hardening with scheduling and automation Set up AWS Lambda for a serverless automated defense Run continuous security scans against your hosts and automatically fix and harden the gaps Extend Ansible to write your custom modules and use them as part of your already existing security automation programs Perform automation security audit checks for applications using Ansible Manage secrets in Ansible using Ansible Vault In Detail Security automation is one of the most interesting skills to have nowadays. Ansible allows you to write automation procedures once and use them across your entire infrastructure. This book will teach you the best way to use Ansible for seemingly complex tasks by using the various building blocks available and creating solutions that are easy to teach others, store for later, perform version control on, and repeat. We'll start by covering various popular modules and writing simple playbooks to showcase those modules. You'll see how this can be applied over a variety of platforms and operating systems, whether they are Windows/Linux bare metal servers or containers on a cloud platform. Once the bare bones automation is in place, you'll learn how to leverage tools such as Ansible Tower or even Jenkins to create scheduled repeatable processes around security patching, security hardening, compliance reports, monitoring of systems, and so on. Moving on, you'll delve into useful security automation techniques and approaches, and learn how to extend Ansible for enhanced security. While on the way, we will tackle topics like how to manage secrets, how to manage all the playbooks that we will create and how to enable collaboration using Ansible Galaxy. In the final stretch, we'll tackle how to extend the modules of Ansible for our use, and do all the previous tasks in a programmatic manner to get even more powerful automation frameworks and rigs. Style and approach This comprehensive guide will teach you to manage Linux and Windows hosts remotely in a repeatable and predictable manner. The book takes an in-depth approach and helps you understand how to set up complicated stacks of software with codified and easy-to-share best practices.

Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2
Author: Jonathan McAllister
Publisher:
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2017-07-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781787120532

Leverage the power of Ansible 2 and related tools and scale DevOps processesAbout This Book* Learn how to use Ansible playbooks along with YAML and JINJA to create efficient DevOps solutions* Use Ansible to provision and automate Docker containers and images* Learn the fundamentals of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery and how to leverage Ansible to implement these modern DevOps* Learn the fundamentals of creating custom Ansible modules* Learn the fundamentals of Ansible Galaxy* Follow along step-by-step as we teach you to scale Ansible for your DevOps processesWho This Book Is ForIf you are a DevOps engineer, administrator, or developer and want to implement the DevOps environment in your organization using Ansible, then this book is for you.What You Will Learn* Get to the grips with the fundamentals of Ansible 2.2 and how you can benefit from leveraging Ansible for DevOps.* Adapt the DevOps process and learn how Ansible and other tools can be used to automate it.* Start automating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tasks using Ansible* Maximize the advantages of tools such as Docker, Jenkins, JIRA, and many more to implement the DevOps culture.* Integrate DevOps tools with Ansible* Extend Ansible using Python and create custom modules that integrate with unique specific technology stacks* Connect and control the states of various third-party applications such as GIT, SVN, Artifactory, Nexus, Jira, Hipchat, Slack, Nginx, and othersIn DetailThinking about adapting the DevOps culture for your organization using a very simple, yet powerful automation tool, Ansible 2? Then this book is for you!In this book, you will start with the role of Ansible in the DevOps module, which covers fundamental DevOps practices and how Ansible is leveraged by DevOps organizations to implement consistent and simplified configuration management and deployment. You will then move on to the next module, Ansible with DevOps, where you will understand Ansible fundamentals and how Ansible Playbooks can be used for simple configuration management and deployment tasks. After simpler tasks, you will move on to the third module, Ansible Syntax and Playbook Development, where you will learn advanced configuration management implementations, and use Ansible Vault to secure top-secret information in your organization. In this module, you will also learn about popular DevOps tools and the support that Ansible provides for them (MYSQL, NGINX, APACHE and so on). The last module, Scaling Ansible for the enterprise, is where you will integrate Ansible with CI and CD solutions and provision Docker containers using Ansible.By the end of the book you will have learned to use Ansible to leverage your DevOps tasks.Style and approachA step-by-step guide to automating all DevOps stages with ease using Ansible

Ansible for DevOps

Ansible for DevOps
Author: Jeff Geerling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2020-08-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780986393426

Ansible is a simple, but powerful, server and configuration management tool. Learn to use Ansible effectively, whether you manage one server--or thousands.

DevOps for SharePoint

DevOps for SharePoint
Author: Oscar Medina
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-10-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1484236882

Deploy a SharePoint farm in a repeatable, predictable, and reliable fashion using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) techniques to automate provisioning. Savvy IT pros will learn how to use DevOps practices and open source tools to greatly reduce costs, and streamline management operations for SharePoint farms deployed via Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or on premise. DevOps for SharePoint will help you navigate the complex challenges of deploying and managing SharePoint Server farms. You will learn how to reduce time-consuming tasks and errors when generating development, testing, or production environments. And you will benefit from learning proven methods to apply Microsoft updates with minimal downtime and productivity loss. Whether you are a SharePoint architect, IT pro, or developer helping customers with the SharePoint platform, this book will teach you the most useful DevOps practices to tackle those issues and broaden your skill set. What You’ll Learn Understand the basics of the most popular open source tools—Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, and Ansible—and how to use them in the context of deploying and scaling a SharePoint farm Use Vagrant to build SharePoint development environments in less than an hour, and add automated testing Use Packer to create a “golden image” with preconfigured settings, and then use it as the base image in your Terraform configuration for both AWS and Azure farms Use Terraform to scale your SharePoint farm topology Use Red Hat’s Ansible Playbooks to perform configuration management on your farmUse Terraform to deploy immutable infrastructure environments using IaC (Infrastructure as Code)Use InSpec 2.0 to stay in compliance by testing your cloud infrastructureUse Ansible to apply Microsoft updates and patches Who This Book Is For IT pros and developers who are looking to expand their knowledge and take a modern approach by using open source technologies to work with Microsoft products. Experience installing SharePoint, and a basic understanding of either Azure or AWS, is helpful.

Practical Ansible 2

Practical Ansible 2
Author: Daniel Oh
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2020-06-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1789615410

Leverage the power of Ansible to gain complete control over your systems and automate application deployment Key FeaturesUse Ansible 2.9 to automate and control your infrastructureDelve into advanced functionality such as plugins and custom modules in AnsibleAutomate and orchestrate major cloud platforms such as OpenStack, AWS, and Azure using AnsibleBook Description Ansible enables you to automate software provisioning, configuration management, and application roll-outs, and can be used as a deployment and orchestration tool. While Ansible provides simple yet powerful features to automate multi-layer environments using agentless communication, it can also solve other critical IT challenges, such as ensuring continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) with zero downtime. In this book, you'll work with Ansible 2.9 and learn to solve complex issues quickly with the help of task-oriented scenarios. You'll start by installing and configuring Ansible on Linux and macOS to automate monotonous and repetitive IT tasks and get to grips with concepts such as playbooks, inventories, and network modules. As you progress, you'll gain insight into the YAML syntax and learn how to port between Ansible versions. In addition to this, you'll also understand how Ansible enables you to orchestrate multi-layer environments such as networks, containers, and the cloud. By the end of this Ansible book, you'll be well - versed in writing playbooks and other related Ansible code to overcome just about all of your IT challenges, from infrastructure-as-code provisioning to application deployments, and even handling the mundane day-to-day maintenance tasks that take up so much valuable time. What you will learnBecome familiar with the fundamentals of the Ansible frameworkSet up role-based variables and dependenciesAvoid common mistakes and pitfalls when writing automation code in AnsibleExtend Ansible by developing your own modules and pluginsContribute to the Ansible project by submitting your own codeFollow best practices for working with cloud environment inventoriesTroubleshoot issues triggered during Ansible playbook runsWho this book is for If you are a DevOps engineer, administrator, or any IT professional looking to automate IT tasks using Ansible, this book is for you. Prior knowledge of Ansible is not necessary.

Implementing DevOps on AWS

Implementing DevOps on AWS
Author: Veselin Kantsev
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1786469979

Bring the best out of DevOps and build, deploy, and maintain applications on AWS About This Book Work through practical examples and gain DevOps best practices to successfully deploy applications on AWS Successfully provision and operate distributed application systems and your AWS infrastructure using DevOps Perform Continuous Integration and deployment and fine-tune the way you deliver on AWS Who This Book Is For This book is for system administrators and developers who manage AWS infrastructure and environments and are planning to implement DevOps in their organizations. Those aiming for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification will also find this book useful. Prior experience of operating and managing AWS environments is expected. What You Will Learn Design and deploy infrastructure as code within your AWS Virtual Private Cloud Implement Continuous Integration using AWS Services Configure EC2 instances using SaltStack Implement Continuous Deployment using Jenkins and the AWS CLI Collect important metrics and log data to gain more insight into infrastructure and applications Troubleshooting popular issues with some less known techniques using the AWS platform In Detail Knowing how to adopt DevOps in your organization is becoming an increasingly important skill for developers, whether you work for a start-up, an SMB, or an enterprise. This book will help you to drastically reduce the amount of time spent on development and increase the reliability of your software deployments on AWS using popular DevOps methods of automation. To start, you will get familiar with the concept of IaC and will learn to design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure. Further on, you'll see how to design and deploy a Continuous Integration platform on AWS using either open source or AWS provided tools/services. Following on from the delivery part of the process, you will learn how to deploy a newly created, tested, and verified artefact to the AWS infrastructure without manual intervention. You will then find out what to consider in order to make the implementation of Configuration Management easier and more effective. Toward the end of the book, you will learn some tricks and tips to optimize and secure your AWS environment. By the end of the book, you will have mastered the art of implementing DevOps practices onto AWS. Style and approach This book is packed full of real-world examples demonstrating use cases that help you deploy DevOps best practices on AWS.

Ansible: Up and Running

Ansible: Up and Running
Author: Lorin Hochstein
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2014-12-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1491916141

Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages—it’s minimal in nature, you don’t need to install anything on your nodes, and it has an easy learning curve. This practical guide shows you how to be productive with this tool quickly, whether you’re a developer deploying code to production or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution. Author Lorin Hochstein shows you how to write playbooks (Ansible’s configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool’s real power: built-in declarative modules. You’ll discover that Ansible has the functionality you need and the simplicity you desire. Understand how Ansible differs from other configuration management systems Use the YAML file format to write your own playbooks Learn Ansible’s support for variables and facts Work with a complete example to deploy a non-trivial application Use roles to simplify and reuse playbooks Make playbooks run faster with ssh multiplexing, pipelining, and parallelism Deploy applications to Amazon EC2 and other cloud platforms Use Ansible to create Docker images and deploy Docker containers

Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook
Author: Aditya Patawari
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2018-02-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1788298772

Orchestrate your cloud infrastructure Key Features Recipe-based approach to install and configure cloud resources using Ansible Covers various cloud-related modules and their functionalities Includes deployment of a sample application to the cloud resources that we create Learn the best possible way to manage and automate your cloud infrastructure Book Description Ansible has a large collection of inbuilt modules to manage various cloud resources. The book begins with the concepts needed to safeguard your credentials and explain how you interact with cloud providers to manage resources. Each chapter begins with an introduction and prerequisites to use the right modules to manage a given cloud provider. Learn about Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and other providers. Each chapter shows you how to create basic computing resources, which you can then use to deploy an application. Finally, you will be able to deploy a sample application to demonstrate various usage patterns and utilities of resources. What you will learn Use Ansible Vault to protect secrets Understand how Ansible modules interact with cloud providers to manage resources Build cloud-based resources for your application Create resources beyond simple virtual machines Write tasks that can be reused to create resources multiple times Work with self-hosted clouds such as OpenStack and Docker Deploy a multi-tier application on various cloud providers Who this book is for If you are a system administrator, infrastructure engineer, or a DevOps engineer who wants to obtain practical knowledge about Ansible and its cloud deliverables, then this book is for you. Recipes in this book are designed for people who would like to manage their cloud infrastructures efficiently using Ansible, which is regarded as one of the best tools for cloud management and automation.