Learn Ansible : Automate Cloud, Security, and Network Infrastructure Using Ansible 2. x.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Ansible -- Ansible's story -- The term -- The software -- Ansible versus other tools -- Declarative versus imperative -- Configuration versus orchestration -- Infrastructure as code -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Installing and Running Ansible -- Technical requirements -- Installing Ansible -- Installing on macOS -- Homebrew -- The pip method -- Pros and cons -- Installing on Linux -- Installing on Windows 10 Professional -- Launching a virtual machine -- An introduction to playbooks -- Host inventories -- Playbooks -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: The Ansible Commands -- Technical requirements -- Inbuilt commands -- Ansible -- The ansible-config command -- The ansible-console command -- The ansible-doc command -- The ansible-inventory command -- Ansible Vault -- Third-party commands -- The ansible-inventory-grapher command -- Ansible Run Analysis -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Deploying a LAMP Stack -- Technical requirements -- Playbook structure -- LAMP stack -- Common -- Updating packages -- Installing common packages -- Configuring NTP -- Creating a user -- Running the role -- Apache -- Installing Apache -- Configuring Apache -- Configuring SELinux -- Copying an HTML file -- Running the role -- MariaDB -- Installing MariaDB -- Configuring MariaDB -- Importing a sample database -- Running the role -- PHP -- Installing PHP -- The phpinfo file -- Adminer -- Running the role -- Overriding variables -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Deploying WordPress -- Technical requirements -- Preinstallation tasks -- The stack-install command -- Enabling the repositories -- Installing the packages -- The stack-config role.

WordPress system user -- NGINX configuration -- PHP and PHP-FPM configuration -- Starting NGINX and PHP-FPM -- MariaDB Configuration -- SELinux configuration -- WordPress installation tasks -- WordPress CLI installation -- Creating the WordPress database -- Downloading, configuring, and installing WordPress -- WordPress plugins and theme installation -- Running the WordPress playbook -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 6: Targeting Multiple Distributions -- Technical requirements -- Launching multiple Vagrant boxes -- Multi-operating system considerations -- Adapting the roles -- Operating system family -- The stack-install role -- The stack-config role -- The wordpress role -- Running the playbook -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: The Core Network Modules -- Technical requirements -- Manufacturer and device support -- The modules -- A10 Networks -- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) -- Cisco AireOS -- Apstra Operating System (AOS) -- Aruba Mobility Controller -- Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) -- Avi Networks -- Big Switch Networks -- Citrix Netscaler -- Huawei CloudEngine (CE) -- Arista CloudVision (CV) -- Lenovo CNOS -- Cumulus Linux (CL) -- Dell operating system 10 (DellOS10) -- Ubiquiti EdgeOS -- Lenovo Enterprise Networking Operating System (ENOS) -- Arista EOS -- F5 BIG-IP -- FortiGate FortiManager -- FortiGate FortiOS -- illumos -- Cisco IOS and IOS XR -- Brocade IronWare -- Juniper Junos -- Nokia NetAct -- Pluribus Networks Netvisor OS -- Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) -- Nokia Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) -- Cisco NX-OS (NXOS) -- Mellanox ONYX -- Ordnance -- Open vSwitch (OVS) -- Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS -- Radware -- Nokia Networks Service Router Operating System (SROS) -- VyOS -- System -- Interacting with a network device.

Launching the network device -- The VyOS role -- Running the playbook -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 8: Moving to the Cloud -- Technical requirements -- Interacting with DigitalOcean -- Generating a personal access token -- Installing dopy -- Launching a Droplet -- Running the playbook -- WordPress on DigitalOcean -- The host inventory -- Variables -- The playbook -- The droplet role -- Running the playbook -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Building Out a Cloud Network -- Technical requirements -- An introduction to AWS -- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud overview -- Creating an access key and secret -- The VPC playbook -- The VPC role -- The subnets role -- The internet gateway role -- The security group role -- The ELB role -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Highly Available Cloud Deployments -- Technical requirements -- Planning the deployment -- Costing the deployment -- WordPress considerations and high availability -- The playbook -- Amazon VPC -- Amazon RDS -- Amazon EFS -- Testing the playbook -- Terminating resources -- EC2 instances -- Instance discovery -- New deployment -- Existing deployment -- Stack -- Default variables -- Deploy -- WordPress -- AMI -- Autoscaling -- Running the playbook -- Terminating all the resources -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 11: Building Out a VMware Deployment -- Technical requirements -- An introduction to VMware -- The VMware modules -- Requirements -- vCloud Air -- The vca_fw module -- The vca_nat module -- The vca_vapp module -- VMware vSphere -- The vmware_cluster module -- The vmware_datacenter module -- The vmware_vm_facts module -- The vmware_vm_shell module -- The vmware_vm_vm_drs_rule module -- The vmware_vm_vss_dvs_migrate module -- The vsphere_copy module -- The vsphere_guest module -- VMware vCentre.

The vcenter_folder module -- The vcenter_license module -- The vmware_guest module -- The vmware_guest_facts module -- The vmware_guest_file_operation module -- The vmware_guest_find module -- The vmware_guest_powerstate module -- The vmware_guest_snapshot module -- The vmware_guest_tools_wait module -- VMware ESXi -- The vmware_dns_config module -- The vmware_host_dns_facts module -- The vmware_host module -- The vmware_host_facts module -- The vmware_host_acceptance module -- The vmware_host_config_manager module -- The vmware_host_datastore module -- The vmware_host_firewall_manager module -- The vmware_host_firewall_facts module -- The vmware_host_lockdown module -- The vmware_host_ntp module -- The vmware_host_package_facts module -- The vmware_host_service_manager module -- The vmware_host_service_facts module -- The vmware_datastore_facts module -- The vmware_host_vmnic_facts module -- The vmware_local_role_manager module -- The vmware_local_user_manager module -- The vmware_cfg_backup module -- The vmware_vmkernel module -- The vmware_vmkernel_facts module -- The vmware_target_canonical_facts module -- The vmware_vmotion module -- The vmware_vsan_cluster module -- The vmware_vswitch module -- The vmware_drs_rule_facts module -- The vmware_dvswitch module -- The vmware_dvs_host module -- The vmware_dvs_portgroup module -- The vmware_maintenancemode module -- The vmware_portgroup module -- The vmware_resource_pool module -- An example playbook -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 12: Ansible Windows Modules -- Technical requirements -- Up-and-running -- Vagrantfile -- Ansible preparation -- The ping module -- The setup module -- Installing a web server -- IIS role -- ASP.NET role -- Interacting with AWS Windows instances -- AWS role -- User role -- Chocolatey role -- Information role -- Running the playbook -- Summary.

Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 13: Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible and OpenSCAP -- Technical requirements -- OpenSCAP -- Preparing the host -- The playbook -- Install role -- Scan role -- Running the initial scan -- Generating the remediation Ansible playbook -- Generating the remediation bash script -- Running a standalone scan -- Fixing the remaining failed checks -- Destroying the Vagrant box -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 14: Deploying WPScan and OWASP ZAP -- Preparing the boxes -- The WordPress playbook -- The scan playbook -- The Docker role -- Testing the playbook -- The WPScan role -- Running a WPScan -- The OWASP ZAP role -- Running OWASP ZAP -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 15: Introducing Ansible Tower and Ansible AWX -- Technical requirements -- Web-based Ansible -- Ansible Tower -- Updating the inventory file -- Running the playbook -- Requesting a license -- The hello world demo project -- Launching the AWS playbook -- Adding a new project -- Adding credentials -- Adding an inventory -- Adding the templates -- Running the playbook -- Removing the cluster -- Tower summary -- Ansible AWX -- Preparing the playbook -- The docker role -- The awx role -- Running the playbook -- Using Ansible AWX -- AWX summary -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 16: Ansible Galaxy -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to Ansible Galaxy -- Jenkins playbook -- Publishing a role -- Creating the docker role -- Variables -- Tasks -- Metadata -- README -- Committing the code and publishing -- Testing the role -- Ansible Galaxy commands -- Logging in -- Importing -- Searching -- Info -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 17: Next Steps with Ansible -- Integrating with third-party services -- Slack -- Generating a token -- The Ansible playbook -- Running the playbook.

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Ansible is an IT automation and configuration management tool widely used for infrastructure, cloud, and network automation. Trends and surveys say that Ansible is the choice of tool among system administrators as it is so easy to use. In this book, you'll learn how to integrate Ansible into your day-to-day role as a system administrator,.

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