Gineesh Madapparambath - Ansible for Real-Life Automation

A complete Ansible handbook filled with practical IT automation use cases

Gineesh Madapparambath

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To my wife, Deepthy, for supporting and motivating me as always. To my son, Abhay, for allowing me to take time away from playing with him to write the book. To my parents and my ever-supportive friends, for their motivation and help.

- Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects.

He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VMware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform).

Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.

Vijay Jadhav is a solutions architect based out of Mumbai, India, with over two decades of experience in different roles in the IT industry. For the last 10 years, he has been working as an SME in cloud computing designing cloud-native applications using microservices-based architecture, and automated provisioning and de-provisioning of cloud resources using IaaC tools such as Ansible and Terraform. He currently works as a cloud architect at Cisco driving the innovation and adoption of next-gen technologies.

Vijay is a husband and a dad to an 8-year-old son. He spends his spare time (if such a thing does truly exist) watching popular movies and web series on OTT platforms.

Sean Cavanaugh is a senior principal technical marketing manager for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, where he brings over 12 years of experience in building and automating computer networks. Sean previously worked for both Cumulus Networks (acquired by Nvidia) and Cisco Systems where he helped customers deploy, manage, and automate their network infrastructures. He resides in Chapel Hill, NC, with his wife and children, and tweets from @IpvSean.

Id like to thank my wife, who is truly my partner. She has her own career and workload outside the IT industry but is always committed to helping me succeed in all my endeavors. I have had a really exciting career getting to work with very intelligent people that constantly challenge me and make me a better person. Thank you to all my co-workers past and present that have helped me along my path.

Sreejith Anujan is a cloud technology professional with more than 15 years of experience in on-premises data center solutions and 10 years of experience in working with public cloud providers. He enjoys working with customers on their enablement plans to upskill the technical team on container and automation tooling. In his current role as a principal instructor within Red Hat, Sreejith is responsible for designing and delivering custom and tailored technology training and workshops to strategic customers across the Asia-Pacific region.

I would like to show my gratitude to the free software and open source community volunteers who have helped me in my journey so far. The sense of collaboration and free contribution are two values that make me cherish being part of those communities. A huge shout-out to my family, especially my wife for supporting our kids while I was busy traveling across the APAC region for my professional commitments!