What this book covers

Chapter 1, System Architecture and Design of Ansible, provides a detailed look at the ins and outs of how Ansible goes about performing tasks on behalf of an engineer, how it is designed, and how to work with inventories and variables.

Chapter 2, Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible, explores the tools available to encrypt data at rest and prevent secrets from being revealed at runtime.

Chapter 3, Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates, states the varied uses of the Jinja2 templating engine within Ansible, and discusses ways to make the most out of its capabilities.

Chapter 4, Controlling Task Conditions, describes the changing of default behavior of Ansible to customize task error and change conditions.

Chapter 5, Composing Reusable Ansible Content with Roles, describes the approach to move beyond executing loosely organized tasks on hosts to encapsulating clean reusable abstractions to applying the specific functionality of a target set of hosts.

Chapter 6, Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Deployments, explores the common deployment and upgrade strategies to showcase relevant Ansible features.

Chapter 7, Troubleshooting Ansible, explores the various methods that can be employed to examine, introspect, modify, and debug the operations of Ansible.

Chapter 8, Extending Ansible, discovers the various ways in which new capabilities can be added to Ansible via modules, plugins, and inventory sources.