Ansible Cookbook#
Useful Automation Recipies
Introduction#
Ansible says of itself that it is simple.
In fact, it is a tool that administrators can use after a few hours and often achieve results quickly. It is used both in small private home labs and in larger professional cloud environments.
Its flexible applicability also means that requirements can be approached in different ways. It can therefore happen that you get bogged down, i.e. you try to solve things in an overly complicated way, even though there would be a more suitable, even simpler way in Ansible.
Over the years, I have come across a whole series of challenges. I have documented my solutions as recipes and compiled them for this book. Many of them may not solve your problem exactly, but they will give you an idea or show you a way.
Many moons I thought about how to publish this book. I came to the conclusion, that I don't want to publish a book on paper anymore about software that is constantly being changed, modfied and improved.
If you also like it and find it useful, I would appreciate a small ‘thank you’ by sponsoring this book.
The Author#
René Moser is a System Engineer and Developer, lives in Switzerland with his wife and their three children. He was an early adopter of Ansible, shortly after its release in 2012, and has helped shape it to this day.
Starting 2015, he is a member of ASF's Apache CloudStack as Committer and PMC. He authored some Cloud related Ansible Integrations, o.a. CloudStack, Vultr, cloudscale.ch and was a member of the "Ansible Core Contributions Team" from 2015 to 2020. He co-authored the 2nd edition of O'Reilly's "Ansible: Up & Running", released 2017 and started a company in 2021 Moser Systems providing professional Ansible support and development services.