Miesen A. Ansible. The Practical Guide for Administrators and Devops Teams 2025

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If you want to keep your servers in order, Ansible is the tool of choice! In this practical guide, you'll learn how to use Ansible to automate server configuration, software deployment, and more. Start by installing Ansible and setting up your initial inventory management process. Then, follow step-by-step instructions for system orchestration, from the basics of playbooks and tasks to using Ansible with Docker. With expert tips and best practices for testing, debugging, and more, this is your all-in-one guide to automating with Ansible! Highlights include: 1) Basic setup 2) Inventory management 3) Ad-hoc commands and patterns 4) YAML 5) Playbooks, tasks, and plays 6) Modularization 7) Roles 8) Includes 9) Module library 10) Web interfaces 11) Docker 12) Custom collections and modules