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

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.

探索 Ansible 自動化平台，了解不同組件如何互動以標準化和擴展自動化。

主要特點：
- 由紅帽高級顧問精心編輯，提供實際案例以最大化使用 Ansible 自動化平台的效益。
- 使用角色和模組在 Ansible 自動化平台中創建互動式 playbook。
- 探索簡化 Ansible 自動化平台管理的最佳實踐。

書籍描述：
儘管您可以使用任何自動化軟體來簡化任務自動化，但僅使用命令行工具來滿足不斷增長的業務需求的自動化擴展變得困難。Ansible 自動化平台標準化了自動化的部署、啟動、委派和審計，本全面指南將向您展示如何簡化和擴展其管理。

本書首先介紹了安裝 Ansible 自動化平台的方法、優缺點和初始配置。您將了解平台中的每個對象，以及它如何與其他對象互動，並學習定義和管理對象的最佳實踐，以節省時間。您將看到如何使用基礎架構即代碼來維護創建的組件。隨著您的進一步學習，您將使用 CI/CD playbook 監控工作流程，並了解 Ansible 自動化平台如何與 GitLab 和 GitHub 等許多其他服務集成。

通過閱讀本書，您將通過實際案例學習如何充分利用該平台，同時學習如何操作、管理和部署任何 playbook 到 Ansible 自動化平台。

您將學到什麼：
- 熟悉 Ansible 自動化平台的不同部分及其維護。
- 備份和還原 Ansible 自動化平台的安裝。
- 啟動和配置基本和高級工作流程和作業。
- 使用 CI/CD 流水線創建自己的執行環境。
- 與 Git、紅帽身份驗證服務器和日誌服務互動。
- 將自動化控制器與服務目錄集成。
- 使用自動化網格擴展自動化控制器。

本書適合對象：
本書適合 IT 管理員、DevOps 工程師、雲工程師和自動化工程師，他們希望了解和維護 Ansible 自動化平台的控制器部分。如果您具備 Ansible 的基本知識、能夠設置虛擬機器或具有 OpenShift 經驗，並且想更多了解如何擴展 Ansible，本書適合您。