James Freeman - Mastering Ansible: Automate configuration management and overcome deployment challenges with Ansible, 4th Edition

Automate configuration management and overcome deployment challenges with Ansible

James Freeman

Jesse Keating

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To Corinne Woolley for helping me to see who I really am, for her care, continued support, and presence in my world. To Ray and Mary, my beloved grandparents, always in my heart. To Ken for teaching me to take life in my stride.

James Freeman

James Freeman is an accomplished IT consultant with over 20 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than 8 years of first-hand experience solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, frequently introducing Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs. In addition, he has authored and facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions and has presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.

So many people have made this possible and I would like to thank each and every one of them for their love and support, especially Neeshia Jasmara.

Jesse Keating is an accomplished Ansible user, contributor, and presenter. He has been an active member of the Linux and open source community for over 15 years. He has firsthand experience involving a variety of IT activities, software development, and large-scale system administration. He has presented at numerous conferences and meetups, and has written many articles on a variety of topics.

Mario Vzquez is a software engineer passionate about container technologies, automation, and hybrid cloud. He has been working with Ansible since the early days and has always had Ansible in his toolbelt. These days, Mario is helping partners and customers to move their workloads to Kubernetes across multiple infrastructure providers.