Automating Infrastructure with Ansible

"Automating Infrastructure with Ansible"
"Automating Infrastructure with Ansible" is a comprehensive guide for IT professionals and infrastructure engineers seeking to master the art and science of modern automation. The book begins by unpacking Ansible's architecture and foundational concepts, offering deep insights into agentless execution, inventory management, and the intricacies of modules and plugins. Readers are equipped with best practices for configuration management, templating, and ensuring idempotency-critical for delivering reliable, repeatable automation across diverse environments.
Leveraging real-world patterns, this book walks through the structuring of scalable playbooks, creation and use of roles, and advanced techniques for error handling and testing. Extensive coverage is given to the development of custom modules and plugins, empowering teams to tailor automation for unique organizational needs and workflows. As infrastructures move toward multi-cloud, hybrid, and highly distributed models, clear strategies are provided for dynamic inventory, hybrid orchestration, and efficient variable and secret management at scale.
Security, compliance, and governance are treated as first-class citizens, with hands-on guidance for protecting automation assets, integrating policy as code, and enabling robust access controls. Chapters on testing, CI/CD, event-driven response, and self-healing architectures ensure that readers are prepared for every stage of the automation lifecycle. Rounded out by future-facing discussions-including AI-driven automation and real-world case studies-this book is an indispensable resource for organizations aiming to deliver infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and truly autonomous.