Ansible : from beginner to pro /: from beginner to pro. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Heap.
• Authors: Heap, Michael
• Contents: At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Getting Started; What Is Configuration Management?; Infrastructure as Code; About Ansible; Puppet, Chef, and Other Configuration Management Tools; Installing Ansible; Writing Your First Playbook; Creating a Test Environment with Vagrant; About VirtualBox and Vagrant; Installing VirtualBox and Vagrant; Creating Your Environment; An Introduction to Playbooks; Your First Playbook; Playbooks and Idempotency; Summary; Chapter 2: The Inventory File; What's an Inventory? Running Without VagrantConfiguration Options in the Inventory; Inventory Variable Registration; Inventory Groups; An Example Inventory; Dynamic Inventories; Multiple Inventories; Summary; Chapter 3: Installing WordPress; Installing WordPress; Environment Configuration; Installing Dependencies; Installing PHP; Installing MySQL; Installing nginx; Tasks and Handlers; Downloading WordPress; Downloading it Yourself; Downloading it Automatically; Configuring a WordPress Install; Making a Backup; Making It Idempotent; Summary; Chapter 4: Ansible Roles; Ansible Galaxy; Role Structure. Splitting Up Your WordPress Playbookmheap.php; mheap.mysql; mheap.nginx; mheap.wordpress; mheap.common; Role Dependencies; Wrapper Roles; Creating Roles for Different Platforms; Tips for Writing Roles; Summary; Chapter 5: Parameterizing Playbooks; Parameterizing Your WordPress Role; Customizing the WordPress Domain Name; Variable Locations; Role Defaults (Commonly Used); Inventory Variables; Inventory Group Variables; Inventory Host Variables; Playbook Group Variables (Commonly Used); Playbook Host Variables (Commonly Used); Host Facts; Registered Variables (Commonly Used); Set Facts. Playbook VariablesPlaybook vars_prompt; Playbook vars_files; Role Variables (Commonly Used); Block Variables; Task Variables; Extra Variables; Gathering Facts; Disabling Facts; Facts.d; Fact Caching; hostvars; Working with Variables; Ansible's Variable Philosophy; Summary; Chapter 6: Writing Your Own Modules; About Ansible Modules; ansible-modules-core; ansible-modules-extras; Environment Setup; Writing a Module Using Bash; Writing a Module Using Python; Writing in Any Other Programming Language; Providing Facts via a Module; Summary; Chapter 7: Orchestrating AWS; Creating an AWS Account. IAM UsersKey Pairs; Security Groups; Prerequisites; Creating an Instance; Deleting Instances; Managing Instance Cardinality; Provisioning Your New Instance; Running Your WordPress Playbook; Dynamic Inventories; Creating a VPC; Summary; Chapter 8: Testing with Test Kitchen; About Test Kitchen; Installing Test Kitchen; An Introduction to ServerSpec; Writing Your First Test; More Lightweight Tests; Testing Your WordPress Role; Summary; Chapter 9: Advanced Ansible; Ansible: The Command-Line Tool; Querying the Environment; ansible-vault; ansible-galaxy; ansible-galaxy init; ansible-galaxy install.
• Publisher Details: Berkley, CA : Apress
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 004.0688; Computer science; Configuration management; Programming languages (Electronic computers); COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy; COMPUTERS -- Computer Science; COMPUTERS -- Data Processing; COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General; COMPUTERS -- Information Technology; COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory; COMPUTERS -- Reference; Configuration management; Programming languages (Electronic computers); Computer Science; Open Source; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Personal Computing; The Computer Industry; Computing Methodologies; Business & Economics -- Information Management; Computers -- Hardware -- Personal Computers -- General; Business & Economics -- Industries -- Computer Industry; Computers -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; Information architecture; Personal computers; Information technology industries; Artificial intelligence; Open source software; Computer programming; Information Systems; Computer industry; Artificial intelligence; Computers -- Programming -- Open Source; Computer programming / software development; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484216590; 1484216598
• Related ISBNs: 9781484216606; 1484216601
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 4, 2016).
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