Ansible is a simple, but powerful, server and configuration management tool (with a few other tricks up its sleeve). This book will help those familiar with the command line and basic shell scripting start using Ansible to provision and manage anywhere from one to thousands of servers.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Getting Started with Ansible

Chapter 2 - Local Infrastructure Development: Ansible and Vagrant

Chapter 3 - Ad-Hoc Commands

Chapter 4 - Ansible Playbooks

Chapter 5 - Ansible Playbooks - Beyond the Basics

Chapter 6 - Playbook Organization - Roles, Includes, and Imports

Chapter 7 - Ansible Plugins and Content Collections

Chapter 8 - Inventories

Chapter 9 - Ansible Cookbooks

Chapter 10 - Deployments with Ansible

Chapter 11 - Server Security and Ansible

Chapter 12 - Automating Your Automation with Ansible Tower and Cl/CD

Chapter 13 - Testing and Cl for Ansible Content

Chapter 14 - Automating HTTPS and TLS Certificates

Chapter 15 - Docker and Ansible

Afterword

Appendix A - Using Ansible on Windows workstations

Appendix B - Ansible Best Practices and Conventions

About the Author

Jeff Geerling is a developer who has worked in programming and devops for companies with anywhere between one to thousands of servers. He also manages many virtual servers for services offered by Midwestern Mac, LLC, and has been using Ansible to manage infrastructure since early 2013.