Previous edition: published as by Lorin Hochstein and René Moser. 2017

Introduction -- Installation and setup -- Playbooks: a beginning -- Inventory: describing your servers -- Variables and facts -- Introducing Mezzanine: our test application -- Deploying Mezzanine with Ansible -- Debugging Ansible playbooks -- Roles: scaling up your playbooks -- Complex playbooks -- Customizing hosts, runs, and handlers -- Managing Windows hosts -- Ansible and containers -- Quality assurance with Molecule -- Collections -- Creating images -- Cloud infrastructure -- Callback plug-ins -- Custom modules -- Making Ansible go even faster -- Networking and security -- CI/CD and Ansible -- Ansible automation platform -- Best practices

"Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages: It's minimal in nature. You don't need to install agents on your nodes. And there's an easy learning curve. With this updated third edition, you'll quickly learn how to be productive with Ansible whether you're a developer deploying code or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution. Authors Bas Meijer, Lorin Hochstein, and Rene Moser show you how to write playbooks (Ansible's configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool's real power: built-in declarative modules. You'll learn how Ansible has all the functionality you need--and the simplicity you desire."--Publisher's description