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Before We Begin

About this Module

Getting Started

Introduction Learning Outcomes

Ansible Development with Containers

Introduction Build and Run a Container Variables, Volumes, and DockerHub Summary

Connect to the Cloud

Connect to Azure

Starting at the Source

Introduction to Git Connect to the Repository Get hands on with Git Commands Summary

Getting Started with Ad-Hoc Commands and Playbooks

Introduction to Ad-Hoc Commands Create a Playbook Summary Quiz on Ad-Hoc Commands and Playbooks

Deploy an Ansible Development Environment

Introduction Deploy to AWS Deploy to Azure Connect to the Environment Summary

Putting the Ansible Environment to Work

Ad-hoc Commands against Remote Hosts Playbooks against Remote Hosts Configure an Nginx Web Server Configure a Windows IIS Web Server Summary Quiz on Remote Hosts Management using Ansible

Take Inventory of the Infrastructure

Introduction to Inventories Use Groups Organize Hosts and Group Variables Secure Secrets with Ansible Vault: Use Encrypted Files Secure Secrets with Ansible Vault: Use Encrypted Strings Summary Quiz on Taking Inventory of the Infrastructure

Build Reusable Configurations

Introduction Build a Site Make it Reusable with Ansible Roles Decoupling Ansible Roles Summary Quiz on Building Reusable Configurations

Dynamic Inventories for Scaling

Introduction AWS - Create a Dynamic Inventory AWS - Use Keyed Groups Azure - Create a Dynamic Inventory Azure - Use Keyed Groups Summary Quiz on Dynamic Inventories

Build a CI \ CD pipeline for Ansible with Github Actions

Introduction Release Pipeline for Ansible Using Github Action to Lint Ansible Deploying the Ansible Code Create a Deploy Ansible Workflow Setting a Failure Exit Code in a Docker Container Summary

Appendix

Ansible Directory Layout

Conclusion

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Summary

Summary

A summary of the content covered in this chapter.

In this chapter, we introduced tools and packages to connect to cloud providers, AWS and Azure, with your Ansible environment.

Let’s do a recap of the objectives we set at the start of the chapter:

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