Rackspace was one of the first companies in the public cloud business. Also, in a joint effort with NASA, Rackspace created OpenStack in 2010. In the last 10 years, Rackspace has been a very influential provider for the world of cloud infrastructure, OpenStack, and, more generally, the hosting scene.
Expanding your environment with Rackspace Cloud
by Daniel Oh,
James Freeman,
Fabio Alessandro Locati
Practical Ansible 2
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1: Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
- Getting Started with Ansible
- Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible
- Defining Your Inventory
- Playbooks and Roles
- Section 2: Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
- Consuming and Creating Modules
- Consuming and Creating Plugins
- Coding Best Practices
- Technical requirements
- The preferred directory layout
- The best approach to cloud inventories
- Differentiating between different environment types
- The proper approach to defining group and host variables
- Using top-level playbooks
- Leveraging version control tools 
- Setting OS and distribution variances
- Porting between Ansible versions 
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Advanced Ansible Topics
- Technical requirements
- Asynchronous versus synchronous actions
- Control play execution for rolling updates
- Configuring the maximum failure percentage
- Setting task execution delegation
- Using the run_once option
- Running playbooks locally
- Working with proxies and jump hosts
- Configuring playbook prompts
- Placing tags in the plays and tasks
- Securing data with Ansible Vault
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Section 3: Using Ansible in an Enterprise
- Network Automation with Ansible
- Container and Cloud Management
- Technical requirements
- Designing and building containers with playbooks
- Managing multiple container platforms
- Automating Docker with Ansible
- Exploring container-focused modules
- Automating against Amazon Web Services
- Complementing Google Cloud Platform with automation
- Seamless automation integration to Azure
- Expanding your environment with Rackspace Cloud
- Using Ansible to orchestrate OpenStack
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies
- Getting Started with Ansible Tower
- Assessments
- Other Books You May Enjoy
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