Sean Sullivan - Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform: A definitive way to manage Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Tower

A definitive way to manage Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Tower

Sean Sullivan

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This book is dedicated to my family, friends, and coworkers. I could not have done this without your help.

Sean Sullivan works as a consultant for Red Hat and attended Purdue University, where he focused on networking. He has helped both small and large companies manage their Ansible deployments for the past five years, specializing in configuration as code and Ansible Automation Platform. He is a keen contributor to Red Hats GitHub repository and an avid board gamer whose favorite game is Brass: Birmingham.

I want to thank those who have helped me along the way. Thank you to my parents, grandparents, and the rest of my family, who have always encouraged me to follow my path in life. Thank you to my friends, who are always there for me. Thank you to Tom Page, who has helped as a technical reviewer in this book and helps to maintain the redhat_cop collections with me. Thank you to Bianca Henderson and John Westcott, who put up with me and were instrumental in my understanding of the awx.awx collection modules. Thank you to David Danielsson, for all your help maintaining and contributing to the redhat_cop collections. Thank you to Kedar Kulkarni, for your help in starting the controller configuration.

Tom Page has worked for Red Hat as a consultant for the past five years, with a key focus on working with customers to implement Ansible automation solutions. He is a co-maintainer of several AAP collections produced by Red Hats Community of Practice, with the aim of delivering configuration as code as an end-to-end approach.