Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

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.

Type
ebook
publication date
2022-09-30
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

no of pages
314
duration
628
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
approach
Complete with hands-on tutorials, and projects this easy-to-follow guide will teach you how to manage Ansible tower and use it to execute all your ansible needs.
audience
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.
meta description
Explore Ansible Automation Platform and understand how the different pieces interact to standardize and scale automation
short description
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an integrated solution for operationalizing Ansible across your team, organization, and enterprise. This guide will help you grow and scale your automation to work while simplifying the management of Ansible Automation Platform.
subtitle
A definitive way to manage Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Tower
keywords
Ansible book, Ansible network automation, Ansible automation, Red HatAnsible book, Ansible network automation, Ansible automation, Ansible Tower, Ansible, Automation Controller
Product ISBN
9781803244884