Rishabh Das - Extending Ansible : discover how to efficiently deploy and cusomize Ansible in the way your platform demands

With most companies moving to the cloud, infrastructure needs are growing exponentially. The growing data and massive computing power required to store, analyze, and process this data adds to the infrastructure needs. With the endlessly increasing number of Internet service users and the enormous inflow of data accompanied by a race for data mining, big data and cloud services have opened up new data centers and expanded upon the existing ones. Also, with constantly scaling infrastructure and increasing demands, with the 99.9% uptime promises to keep, automated management of infrastructure became the need of the hour. DevOps soon became a necessity and the market has flooded with DevOps tools. Ansible is one such open source solution that combines orchestration, configuration management, and application deployment capabilities in one.

Ansible is an IT automation tool that lets you manage your Infrastructure as Code. It helps you deploy your applications and manage configurations, thus making life easier. It is an open source project built on Python and has great community support. Ansible, in most ways, is sufficient to address most of your requirements. With a number of modules and plugins available, Ansible makes everything look so easy. Writing and understanding playbooks is smooth.

This book is aimed at advanced users who already have a working knowledge of Ansible, we will discuss various extension points that are exposed by Ansible and how they can be exploited to fit our requirements. This book covers in detail the Ansible Python API, Ansible modules, and Ansible plugins. In this bookby means of real-life scenariosdemonstrates how Ansible can be extended to meet your requirements. This will take you through a step-by-step process of how you can fill in the gaps and become a master of Ansible.