Review\nI enjoyed reading the book. The hands-on examples with code, real-life applications, humorous comments and general writing flow have made it a pleasant read. The book has a high educational value which I experienced at first hand as someone that's been working with Ansible for only 7 months. The last chapters have been a great addition for the different applications that Ansible can be used for/with. Kudos to you, Bas! 
-- Marek Vette 
Software Engineer\nLoved reading it, even learned some new things :-) 
-- Ton Kersten 
Ansible Trainer\n"Bas Meijer has taken the work Lorin Hochstein and René Moser began and modernized the content for this third edition, adding to what was already a very good book. Whether you are a beginner, an intermediate, or an advanced Ansible user, this is a book you'll want to read." 
-- Jan Piet Mens 
Consultant\nAmong the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages: It's minimal in nature. You don't need to install agents on your nodes. And there's an easy learning curve. With this updated third edition, you'll quickly learn how to be productive with Ansible whether you're a developer deploying code or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution. 
Authors Bas Meijer, Lorin Hochstein, and Rene Moser show you how to write playbooks (Ansible's configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool's real power: built-in declarative modules. You'll learn how Ansible has all the functionality you need--and the simplicity you desire. Explore Ansible configuration management and deployment Manage Linux, Windows, and network devices Learn how to apply Ansible best practices Understand how to use the new collections format Create custom modules and plug-ins Generate reusable Ansible content for open source middleware Build container images, images for cloud instances, and cloud infrastructure Automate CI/CD development environments Learn how to use Ansible Automation Platform for DevOps\nFrom the Back Cover\nAmong the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages: It's minimal in nature. You don't need to install agents on your nodes. And there's an easy learning curve. With this updated third edition, you'll quickly learn how to be productive with Ansible whether you're a developer deploying code or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution.\nAuthors Bas Meijer, Lorin Hochstein, and René Moser 
show you how to write playbooks (Ansible's configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool's real power: built-in declarative modules. You'll learn how Ansible has all the functionality you need—and the simplicity you desire. 
Explore Ansible configuration management and deployment Manage Linux, Windows, and network devices Learn how to apply Ansible best practices Understand how to use the new collections format Create custom modules and plugins Generate reusable Ansible content for open source 
middleware Build container images, images for cloud instances, and cloud infrastructure Automate CI/CD development environments Learn how to use Ansible Automation Platform for DevOps

Ansible: Up and Running: Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way

Computers & Technology

Hochstein, Lorin

Moser, René

Meijer, Bas

Networking & Cloud Computing

O'Reilly Media

Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages—it’s minimal in nature, you don’t need to install anything on your nodes, and it has an easy learning curve. This practical guide shows you how to be productive with this tool quickly, whether you’re a developer deploying code to production or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution.
Author Lorin Hochstein shows you how to write playbooks (Ansible’s configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool’s real power: built-in declarative modules. You’ll discover that Ansible has the functionality you need and the simplicity you desire.
<ul>
<li>Understand how Ansible differs from other configuration management systems</li>
<li>Use the YAML file format to write your own playbooks</li>
<li>Learn Ansible’s support for variables and facts
</li>
<li>Work with a complete example to deploy a non-trivial application</li>
<li>Use roles to simplify and reuse playbooks</li>
<li>Make playbooks run faster with ssh multiplexing, pipelining, and parallelism</li>
<li>Deploy applications to Amazon EC2 and other cloud platforms</li>
<li>Use Ansible to create Docker images and deploy Docker containers</li>
</ul>

Design, deploy, and maintain your own private or public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), using the open source OpenStack platform. In this practical guide, experienced developers and OpenStack contributors show you how to build clouds based on reference architectures, as well as how to perform daily administration tasks.
Designed for horizontal scalability, OpenStack lets you build a cloud by integrating several technologies. This approach provides flexibility, but knowing which options to use can be bewildering. Once you complete this book, you’ll know the right questions to ask while you organize compute, storage, and networking resources. If you already know how to manage multiple Ubuntu machines and maintain MySQL, you’re ready to:
<ul>
<li>Set up automated deployment and configuration</li>
<li>Design a single-node cloud controller</li>
<li>Use metrics to improve scalability</li>
<li>Explore compute nodes, network design, and storage</li>
<li>Install OpenStack packages</li>
<li>Use an example architecture to help simplify decision-making</li>
<li>Build a working environment to explore an IaaS cloud</li>
<li>Manage users, projects, and quotas</li>
<li>Tackle maintenance, debugging, and network troubleshooting</li>
<li>Monitor, log, backup, and restore</li>
</ul>

OpenStack Operations Guide: Set Up and Manage Your OpenStack Cloud

Gentle, Anne

Fifield, Tom

Fleming, Diane

Proulx, Jonathan

Toews, Everett

Topjian, Joe

Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages—it’s minimal in nature, you don’t need to install anything on your nodes, and it has an easy learning curve. With this updated second edition, you’ll learn how to be productive with this tool quickly, whether you’re a developer deploying code to production or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution.
Authors Lorin Hochstein and René Moser show you how to write playbooks (Ansible’s configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool’s real power: built-in declarative modules. You’ll discover that Ansible has the functionality you need—and the simplicity you desire.
<ul>
<li>Manage Windows machines, and automate network device configuration</li>
<li>Manage your fleet from your web browser with Ansible Tower</li>
<li>Understand how Ansible differs from other configuration management systems</li>
<li>Use the YAML file format to write your own playbooks</li>
<li>Work with a complete example to deploy a non-trivial application</li>
<li>Deploy applications to Amazon EC2 and other cloud platforms</li>
<li>Create Docker images and deploy Docker containers with Ansible</li>
</ul>
This book is best read start to finish, with later chapters building on earlier ones. Because it’s written in a tutorial style, you can follow along on your own machine. Most examples focus on web applications.

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