Ansible for DevOps Engineers: Hands-On Automation with Real-World Projects, Playbooks, Roles, and CI/CD Pipelines — From Beginner to Advanced (The Devops engineer series Book 1)

Are you tired of managing servers manually, fighting configuration drift, and watching deployments fail at the worst possible moment?Every hour you spend SSHing into servers, running the same commands by hand, and hoping your staging environment matches production is an hour you are not building, scaling, or sleeping. The engineers who get promoted, hired at top companies, and trusted with critical infrastructure are not the ones who work harder — they are the ones who have automated everything.Ansible for DevOps Engineers is the complete, hands-on guide that takes you from your very first Ansible command to deploying and managing production-grade cloud infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines, enterprise automation platforms, and security compliance — all fully automated.Unlike other Ansible books, this book covers the full professional stack: from beginner foundations to advanced AWX enterprise automation, Kubernetes orchestration, CIS security hardening, and a complete capstone project that deploys a three-tier AWS application in under 30 minutes.Inside this book is:Ansible Foundations — Installation on Ubuntu, RHEL, macOS and WSL2, inventory design for multi-cloud environments, ad-hoc commands, and your first production-ready playbookCore Automation Skills — Variables and the complete 22-level precedence hierarchy, conditionals and loops, error handling with block/rescue/always, and the top 30 modules every DevOps engineer uses dailyJinja2 Templates — Generate dynamic configuration files that auto-tune to each server's hardware, role, and environment from a single reusable templateAnsible Roles and Collections — Build reusable, testable, shareable automation with the correct directory structure, Galaxy publishing, and modern collection namespacesSecrets Management — Ansible Vault with multiple Vault IDs, secure CI/CD pipeline integration, and lookup plugins for HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets ManagerCloud Integration — AWS EC2, Azure, and GCP dynamic inventory with tag-based grouping, auto-scaling group management, and end-to-end cloud provisioningAdvanced Playbook Techniques — Rolling updates with serial and canary deployments, delegation, async tasks, and performance tuning that reduces execution time by 70%Testing with Molecule — Multi-platform role testing against Ubuntu and RHEL simultaneously, idempotency verification, ansible-lint enforcement, and automated test pipelinesCI/CD Pipeline Integration — Complete GitHub Actions and GitLab CI pipelines that test, validate, and deploy automatically on every commitAWX and Ansible Automation Platform — The chapter both competing books get wrong. Full AWX installation on Kubernetes, workflows with approval gates, RBAC, schedules, and managing AWX configuration as codeSecurity Automation — CIS benchmark hardening, automated patching with rollback, OpenSCAP compliance scanning, and continuous remediation across your entire fleetKubernetes Orchestration — The kubernetes.core collection, Helm chart management with Ansible, and integrating container deployments into your automation pipelinesComplete Capstone Project — Three-tier AWS application with VPC, EC2, RDS, zero-downtime rolling deployments, GitHub Actions pipeline, AWX integration, and Day-2 operational runbooksThis book is for you if: You are a sysadmin, developer, or cloud engineer ready to move into DevOps You have used Ansible basics but need depth, testing, and enterprise patterns You are preparing for the Red Hat RHCE EX294 certification exam You want a portfolio project that demonstrates senior-level Ansible skills to employersScroll up, click Buy Now, and start automating like a senior DevOps engineer today. Read more