Ebook: Ansible: Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way

Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; A Note About Language; Acknowledgments; From Lorin; From René; Preface to the First Edition; Why I Wrote This Book; Who Should Read This Book; Navigating This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Online Resources; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Chapter 1. Introduction; A Note About Versions; Ansible: What Is It Good For?; How Ansible Works; What's So Great About Ansible?; Easy-to-Read Syntax; Nothing to Install on the Remote Hosts; Push Based; Ansible Scales Down; Built-in Modules; Very Thin Layer of Abstraction.