Ansible has rapidly grown from a small open source orchestration tool to a full-blown orchestration and configuration management tool owned by Red Hat. In this book, you will learn how to write playbooks using the core Ansible modules to deploy everything from basic LAMP stacks to a full-blown highly available public cloud infrastructure.

By the end of the book, you will have learned how to do the following:

• Written your own playbooks to configure servers running CentOS 7, Ubuntu 17.04, and Windows Server
• Defined a highly available cloud infrastructure in code, making it easy to distribute your infrastructure configuration alongside your own code
• Deployed and configured Ansible Tower and Ansible AWX
• Used community contributed roles and learned how to contribute your own roles
• Worked through several use cases of how you can use Ansible in your day-to-day role and projects

By the end of the book, you should have a good idea of how to integrate Ansible in your day-to-day roles as system administrators, developers, and DevOps practitioners.