Published on November 21, 2016
Authored by Fabio Alessandro Locati
Published by Packt Publishing Limited
Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and task automation.
With Ansible, even complex tasks can be handled easier than before.
In this book, you will learn about the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible 2 by diving deeply into topics such as installation (Linux, BSD, and Windows Support), Playbooks, modules, various testing strategies, provisioning, deployment, and orchestration.
In this book, you will get accustomed with the new features of Ansible 2 such as cleaner architecture, task blocks, Playbook parsing, new execution strategy plugins, and modules.
You will also learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as AWS.
The book ends with the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy, where you will learn to interact Ansible with different OSes to speed up your work to previously unseen levels
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October 30, 2016 - Milano, IT
From the 25th to the 27th of this month I’ve been at the SMAU in Milan (Italy).
The SMAU (Salone Macchine e Attrezzature per l’Ufficio, that would be Exposition of Machinery and Equipment for the Office) is an historical fair started in 1964 and that has had many changes over the years, for instance some years it has been opened to the general public, other times it was only for business visitors.
This year the event was targeted to business visitors.
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October 25, 2016 - Milano, IT
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September 28, 2016
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This article deals with Ansible Tower <= 3.0. If you are looking for information around Ansible Tower >= 3.1, please look my newer article on the topic.
In the last few months I’ve setted up multiple times Ansible Tower, but I’ve noticed that there is not much documentation on how to perform basic maintenance on Ansible Tower High Availability setup, so I decided to write an article about it.
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July 11, 2016
Recently a customer asked me to help him debug an Ansible Playbook that was throwing a very generic error that was not helping at all.
The error was:
ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
As soon as I saw the error, I already guessed which problems could trigger such error: it’s either a bad usage of spaces, a badly escaped column within a value, or a variable escaping problem.
With a couple of grep runs, I identified it as the variable escaping problem.
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