Fabio Alessandro Locati - Learning Ansible 2.X*

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Fabio Alessandro Locati, commonly known as Fale, is a director at Otelia, a public speaker, an author, and an open source contributor. His main areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale has more than 12 years of working experience in IT, with many of them spent consulting for many companies, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. This has allowed him to consider technologies from different points of view, and to think critically about them.

Timothy Rupp has been working in various fields of computing for the last 15 years. He has held positions in cybersecurity, software engineering, and in the cloud computing and DevOps fields.

He was first introduced to Ansible while at Rackspace. As part of the cloud engineering team, he made extensive use of the tool to deploy new capacity for Rackspace Public Cloud. Since that introduction, he has contributed patches, provided support, and presented on Ansible topics at local meetups.

While at F5 Networks, he led the development of F5's Ansible modules, and became a core contributor to the Ansible project. Most recently, he has become re-involved in cybersecurity in the financial sector.

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The information technology sector is a fast-moving sector that always tries to accelerate. To keep up with this, companies need to be able to move quickly and iterate frequently. Until a few years back, this was mainly true for software, but now we start to see the necessity of developing infrastructure at a similar speed. Going forward, we will need to change the infrastructure we run our software on at the speed of the software itself.

In this scenario, many technologies, such as software-defined everything (storage, network, and compute, for example), will be key, but those technologies need to be managed in an equally scalable way, and that way will involve using Ansible and similar products.

Ansible is highly relevant today, since, unlike competing products, it is agentless, allowing for faster deployments, more security, and better auditability.

The book is for developers and sysadmins who want to automate their organizations infrastructure using Ansible 2. No prior knowledge of Ansible is required.

, Getting Started with Ansible, explains how to install Ansible.

, Automating Simple Tasks, explains how to create simple playbooks that will allow you to automate some simple tasks that you already perform on a daily basis.

, Scaling to Multiple Hosts, explains how to handle multiple hosts in Ansible in an easy-to-scale way.

, Handling Complex Deployment, explains how to create deployments that have multiple phases, as well as multiple machines.

, Going Cloud, explains how Ansible can integrate with various cloud offerings, and how it can simplify your life, managing the cloud for you.

, Getting Notification from Ansible