Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

This is the code repository for Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform, published by Packt.

A definitive way to manage Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Tower

What is this book about?

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.

This book covers the following exciting features:

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

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

Chapters

#	Chapter Name	Description
1	Introduction to Ansible Automation Platform	Introduction to the book. The code in this chapter has examples of various code used in the book.
2	Installation of Ansible Automation Platform	Installation of the AAP on servers.
3	Installation of Ansible Automation Platform on OpenShift	Installation of the AAP with operators on OpenShift.
4	Configuring Settings and Authentication	Configuring settings and authentication the AAP
5	Configuring the Basics after Installation	Basics of creating organizations, credential types and credentials, and exporting configuration from the Automation Controller.
6	Configuring Role- Based Access Control	Configuring RBAC settings for the Automation controller and hub.
7	Inventories	Inventory and inventory source creation, including inventory plugin creation.
8	Creating Execution Environments	Execution Environment creation, as well as using configuration as code to create EEs
9	Automation Hub Management	Automation hub management including images, collections, and repositories.
10	Creating Job Templates and Workflows	Creation of projects, job templates, and workflows.
11	Creating Advanced Workflows and Jobs	Additional ways to use workflows and notifications.
12	Using CI/CD to interact with Automation controller	Using CI/CD and webhook specific playbooks, backup and restore, and ad hoc commands.
13	Integration with other services	Integration with other services, such as Red Hat insights, Splunk, and Prometheus.
14	Automate at scale with Automation Mesh	Automate at scale with Automation Mesh.
15	Using Ansible Services Catalog	Using Ansible Services Catalog.

Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, ch01.

The code will look like the following:

workflow_nodes:
  - identifier: Inventory Update
    related:
    unified_job_template:
    all_parents_must_converge: false
    extra_data: {}

Following is what you need for this book: 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.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-15).

Software and Hardware List

Chapter	Software required	OS required
1-15	Ansible 2.13	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
1-15	Python3	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
1-15	Docker/Podman	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
1-15	Ansible Automation Platform 2.2	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

Get to Know the Author

Sean Sullivan works as a consultant for Red Hat and attended Purdue University, where he focused on networking. He has helped both small and large companies manage their Ansible deployments for the past five years, specializing in configuration as code and Ansible Automation Platform. He is a keen contributor to Red Hat’s GitHub repository and an avid board gamer whose favorite game is Brass: Birmingham.

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