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- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1: Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
- Getting Started with Ansible
- Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible
- Defining Your Inventory
- Playbooks and Roles
- Section 2: Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
- Consuming and Creating Modules
- Consuming and Creating Plugins
- Coding Best Practices
- Technical requirements
- The preferred directory layout
- The best approach to cloud inventories
- Differentiating between different environment types
- The proper approach to defining group and host variables
- Using top-level playbooks
- Leveraging version control tools 
- Setting OS and distribution variances
- Porting between Ansible versions 
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Advanced Ansible Topics
- Technical requirements
- Asynchronous versus synchronous actions
- Control play execution for rolling updates
- Configuring the maximum failure percentage
- Setting task execution delegation
- Using the run_once option
- Running playbooks locally
- Working with proxies and jump hosts
- Configuring playbook prompts
- Placing tags in the plays and tasks
- Securing data with Ansible Vault
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Section 3: Using Ansible in an Enterprise
- Network Automation with Ansible
- Container and Cloud Management
- Technical requirements
- Designing and building containers with playbooks
- Managing multiple container platforms
- Automating Docker with Ansible
- Exploring container-focused modules
- Automating against Amazon Web Services
- Complementing Google Cloud Platform with automation
- Seamless automation integration to Azure
- Expanding your environment with Rackspace Cloud
- Using Ansible to orchestrate OpenStack
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies
- Getting Started with Ansible Tower
- Assessments
- Other Books You May Enjoy
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