Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform: A definitive way to manage Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Tower - Softcover

Sullivan, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1803244887 ISBN 13: 9781803244884

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Explore Ansible Automation Platform and understand how the different pieces interact to standardize and scale automation

Key Features

• Curated by a senior consultant at Red Hat with real-world examples to maximize use of Ansible Automation Platform
• Use roles and modules to create interactive playbooks in Ansible Automation Platform
• Discover best practices for simplifying management of Ansible Automation Platform

Book Description

While you can use any automation software to simplify task automation, scaling automation to suit your growing business needs becomes difficult using only a command-line tool. Ansible Automation Platform standardizes how automation is deployed, initiated, delegated, and audited, and this comprehensive guide shows you how you can simplify and scale its management.

The book starts by taking you through the ways to get Ansible Automation Platform installed, their pros and cons, and the initial configuration. You'll learn about each object in the platform, how it interacts with other objects, as well as best practices for defining and managing objects to save time. You'll see how to maintain the created pieces with infrastructure as code. As you advance, you'll monitor workflows with CI/CD playbooks and understand how Ansible Automation Platform integrates with many other services such as GitLab and GitHub.

By the end of this book, you'll have worked through real-world examples to make the most of the platform while learning how to manipulate, manage, and deploy any playbook to Ansible Automation Platform.

What you will learn

• Get the hang of different parts of Ansible Automation Platform and their maintenance
• Back up and restore an installation of Ansible Automation Platform
• Launch and configure basic and advanced workflows and jobs
• Create your own execution environment using CI/CD pipelines
• Interact with Git, Red Hat Authentication Server, and logging services
• Integrate the Automation controller with services catalog
• Use Automation Mesh to scale Automation Controller

Who this book is for

This book is for IT administrators, DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, and automation engineers seeking to understand and maintain the controller part of Ansible Automation Platform. If you have basic knowledge of Ansible, can set up a virtual machine, or have OpenShift experience, and want to know more about scaling Ansible, this book is for you.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Ansible Automation Platform
2. Installing Ansible Automation Platform
3. Installing Ansible Automation Platform on OpenShift
4. Configuring Settings and Authentication
5. Configuring the Basics after Installation
6. Configuring Role-Based Access Control
7. Creating Inventory, and Other Inventory Pieces
8. Creating Execution Environments
9. Automation Hub Management
10. Creating Job Templates and Workflows
11. Creating Advanced Workflows and Jobs
12. Using CI/CD to Interact with Automation Controller
13. Integration with Other Services
14. Automating at Scale with Automation Mesh
15. Using Automation Services Catalog

About this title

About the Author

Sean is currently working at RedHat as a consultant for Ansible. As a Consultant, he is experienced in all aspects of Ansible playbooks, modules, dynamic inventories, and roles. He is primarily interested in infrastructure and has worked with clients to use Ansible Tower, custom dynamic inventories, and roles for specific purposes. He has also onboarded and taught employees the basics of Ansible and best practices regarding the use of Ansible. Sean has been actively involved in writing modules, roles and collections, for the Ansible Automation Platform to achieve a goal of infrastructure as code that can be reused by organizations worldwide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1803244887
• ISBN 13: 9781803244884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314