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Getting Started

Introduction Learning Outcomes

Ansible Development with Containers

Introduction Build and Run a Container Variables, Volumes, and DockerHub Summary

Connect to the Cloud

Introduction Connect to AWS Connect to Azure Summary

Starting at the Source

Introduction to Git Connect to the Repository Get hands on with Git Commands Summary

Getting Started with Ad-Hoc Commands and Playbooks

Introduction to Ad-Hoc Commands Create a Playbook Summary Quiz on Ad-Hoc Commands and Playbooks

Deploy an Ansible Development Environment

Introduction Deploy to AWS Deploy to Azure Connect to the Environment Summary

Putting the Ansible Environment to Work

Ad-hoc Commands against Remote Hosts

Playbooks against Remote Hosts

Configure an Nginx Web Server

Configure a Windows IIS Web Server

Quiz on Remote Hosts Management using Ansible

Take Inventory of the Infrastructure

Introduction to Inventories Use Groups Organize Hosts and Group Variables Secure Secrets with Ansible Vault: Use Encrypted Files Secure Secrets with Ansible Vault: Use Encrypted Strings Summary Quiz on Taking Inventory of the Infrastructure

Build Reusable Configurations

Make it Reusable with Ansible Roles

Decoupling Ansible Roles

Quiz on Building Reusable Configurations

Dynamic Inventories for Scaling

Introduction AWS - Create a Dynamic Inventory AWS - Use Keyed Groups Azure - Create a Dynamic Inventory Azure - Use Keyed Groups Summary Quiz on Dynamic Inventories

Build a CI \ CD pipeline for Ansible with Github Actions

Introduction Release Pipeline for Ansible Using Github Action to Lint Ansible Deploying the Ansible Code Create a Deploy Ansible Workflow Setting a Failure Exit Code in a Docker Container Summary

Appendix

Ansible Directory Layout Where to Go from Here?

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Summary

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Delete the environments

This chapter communicated and deployed infrastructure with the remote Linux and Windows hosts by using different Ansible ad-hoc commands and playbooks.

We started with ad-hoc commands to connect with Linux and Windows hosts. We introduced additional variables required to connect to both of them. They were as follows:

Linux

ansible_user
ansible_password
ansible_ssh_common_args
- Disables host key checking

Windows

ansible_user
ansible_password

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