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As the popularity and criticality of automation has grown within enterprise organizations, the need to automate has become just as important. This book will explain how Event-Drive Ansible, a highly scalable and flexible automation capability that works with event sources such as monitoring tools, can be deployed and configured to handle the day-to-day events created by multiple teams within your organization.
You'll learn how to build a self-healing environment using key components, and how cultural change is a requirement for this automation evolution. Understanding this will not only allow you to monitor the automated remediation of known issues, but also understand how Event-Driven Ansible can be leveraged to resolve both common and major automation headaches.
Event-Driven Ansible will show you why this technology is the next step in automation evolution.
What You Will Learn
- Review diverse use cases for Event-Driven Ansible.
- Build and configure your own Event-Driven Ansible environment.
- Design a self-healing infrastructure.
- Solve common problems that prevent End-to-End Automation.
- Examine end-to-end automation in siloed environments.
Who This Book Is ForIT professionals who are looking at event-driven environment automation and would like to explore self-healing infrastructures, and environment managers who are looking at ways to improve the management of their IT systems.
List of contents
Part I - Introduction to Event-Driven Ansible.- Chapter 1 : What is Event-Driven Ansible.- Chapter 2 : Getting Started with Event-Driven Ansible.- Chapter 3: Looking Under the Hood of Event-Driven Ansible.- Part II: Using Event-Driven Ansible.- Chapter 4: Use cases for Event-Driven Ansible.- Chapter 5: Building your Own Event-Driven Ansible Environment.- Part III: Self-Healing Infrastructure.- Chapter 6: Designing Your Self-Healing Infrastructure.- Chapter 7: Developing Automation.- Chapter 8: Self=Healing Infrastructure.- Part IV: Automating Siloed Environments.- Chapter 9: Common Problems That Prevent End-to-End Automation.- Chapter 10: Architecting End-to-End Automated Solutions.- Chapter 11: End-to-End Automation in Siloed Environments.
About the author
Kenneth Hitchcock currently works as a Senior Architect, with over 23 years of experience in IT. He has spent the last 13 years focused on Red Hat products, certificating himself as a Red Hat Architect along the way. This experience has been paramount in his understanding of how large Linux estates should be managed and automated. In the spirit of openness, Hitchcock was inspired to share his knowledge and experiences in this book. Originally from Durban, South Africa, he now lives in the south of England where he hopes to not only continue inspiring all he meets but also to continue improving himself and the industry he works in.
Dan Hawker currently works as a Principal Cloud Architect, in the UK. Focusing on global enterprise and public sector customers, Dan brings almost 20 years of experience in a wide range of industries and technologies, to help customers best achieve their business goals, by applying modern cloud-native software practices including containerization, automation, and event-driven architectures.
Summary
As the popularity and criticality of automation has grown within enterprise organizations, the need to automate has become just as important. This book will explain how Event-Drive Ansible, a highly scalable and flexible automation capability that works with event sources such as monitoring tools, can be deployed and configured to handle the day-to-day events created by multiple teams within your organization.
You’ll learn how to build a self-healing environment using key components, and how cultural change is a requirement for this automation evolution. Understanding this will not only allow you to monitor the automated remediation of known issues, but also understand how Event-Driven Ansible can be leveraged to resolve both common and major automation headaches.
Event-Driven Ansible will show you why this technology is the next step in automation evolution.
What You Will Learn
- Review diverse use cases for Event-Driven Ansible.
- Build and configure your own Event-Driven Ansible environment.
- Design a self-healing infrastructure.
- Solve common problems that prevent End-to-End Automation.
- Examine end-to-end automation in siloed environments.
Who This Book Is ForIT professionals who are looking at event-driven environment automation and would like to explore self-healing infrastructures, and environment managers who are looking at ways to improve the management of their IT systems.
