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

by Sean Sullivan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803231013
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	09/30/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	314
File size:	9 MB

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.