Table Of Contents #
Shelve in Category: Cloud Computing
User level: Intermediate to Advanced
Chapter 0: Front Matter
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Who’s This Book For
- Modern IT Infrastructure
- Whois Luca Berton
- Awards & Recognition
Chapter 1: Ansible for Beginners with Examples
- What is Ansible
- Getting Started
- Inventory
- Playbook
- Variables
- Facts and Magic Variables
- Vault
- Conditional
- Loop
- Handler
- Role
- Collection
- Ansible plugins
Chapter 2: Installing Ansible
- ansible community vs ansible-core packages
- Ansible terminology - Ansible vs Ansible-core packages
- How to install Ansible in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
- How to install Ansible in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- How to install Ansible in Fedora 36
- How to install Ansible in CentOS 9 Stream
- How to install Ansible in Windows
- How to install Ansible in macOS
- How to install Ansible in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15
- How to install Ansible with PIP
- How to install Ansible in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9
- How to install Ansible in Amazon Linux 2 (AWS EC2)
- How to install Ansible in Debian
Chapter 3: Ansible for VMware
- Configure Ansible For VMware
- Configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible VMware
- Ansible troubleshooting - VMware failed to import PyVmomi
- Ansible troubleshooting - VMware Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ESXi
- Ansible troubleshooting - VMware certificate verify failed connecting to vCenter or ESXi
- Create a VMware virtual machine
- Deploy a VMware virtual machine from a template
- Start a VMware virtual machine
- Stop a VMware virtual machine
- Take a VMware virtual machine snapshot
- Delete a VMware virtual machine snapshot
- Add a new hard disk to VMware virtual machine
- Expand a virtual disk in VMware virtual machine
- Gather VMware Hosts information of a cluster
- Get VMware virtual machine UUID
- Ansible Dynamic Inventory For VMware
- Get VMware virtual machine Running Host
- Get VMware datastore status
- Upload a file to the VMware datastore
- Get VMware Guest Tools status
- Upgrade VMware Guest Tools
- Live Migration of a VMware Virtual Machine using vMotion
- Change the boot devices order of a VMware virtual machine
Chapter 4: Closing Remarks
- Thank you