About this ebook
It is free, portable, powerful, and remarkably easy and fun to use.
This book is a tool to learn the Ansible automation technology with some real-life examples.
Whenever you are new to automation or a professional automation engineer, this book's goal is to bring you quickly up to speed on the fundamentals of the core Ansible language.
Every successful IT department needs automation nowadays for bare metal servers, virtual machines, could, containers, and edge computing. Automate your IT journey with Ansible automation technology.
I'm going to teach you example by example how to accomplish the most common System Administrator tasks.
You are going to start with the installation of Ansible in Windows 10 and Windows 11 and use the most command package manager and archives.
Each of the 50+ lessons summarizes a module: from the most important parameter to some live demo of code and real-life usage. Each code is battle proved in the real life. Console interaction and verification are included in every video. A mundane activity like installing software, verifying a system is up-to-date, rebooting a server, installing Google Chrome, copying files from the local controller to a remote system, could be automated with some lines of code and these are only some of the long lists included in the course.
There are some Ansible codes usable in all the Windows systems and some specific for Windows Server.
The Ansible troubleshooting lessons teach you how to read the error message, how to reproduce, and the process of troubleshooting and resolution.
Are you ready to automate your day with Ansible?
About the author
Luca Berton is an Ansible Automation Engineer of Red Hat, based in Brno - Czech Republic. With more than 15 years of experience as a System Administrator, he has strong expertise in Infrastructure Hardening and Automation. Enthusiast of the Open Source supports the community sharing his knowledge in different events of public access. Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Fedora of course.
