Security Automation with Ansible 2

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Ansible Playbooks and Roles, covers the terms that you would already be familiar with, in Ansible. They are explained with sample playbooks and the Ansible commands required to run those playbooks. If you feel your Ansible concepts and skills are a bit rusty, start here.

Chapter 2, Ansible Tower, Jenkins, and Other Automation Tools, is all about automation of automation. We cover the use of scheduling automation tools commonly used with Ansible such as Ansible Tower, Jenkins, and Rundeck. If you start using these tools the mundane and boring tasks of remembering when to schedule and execute playbooks and get notifications about the output can be delegated to the tools rather than in your head. If ...