Luca Berton’s books offer step-by-step guides on automating VMware, Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud environments with Ansible, focusing on real-world applications, efficiency, and scalability.

Ansible for VMware by Examples

A Step-by-Step Guide to Automating Your VMware Infrastructure

Learn to use the Ansible open source IT automation tool to automate your VMware infrastructure. This book contains all of the obvious and not-so-obvious best practices of Ansible automation. Each lesson summarizes a specific use case for the modern VMware infrastructure and is focused on a single module from the most important parameter, including live demo of code and real-life usage.

You’ll configure the Ansible Controller to interact with VMware infrastructure using the “community.VMware” Ansible documentation collection and the appropriate Python libraries. Next, learn how to automate the creation of a virtual machine manually and from a template, start and stop using the shutdown and forced-power off a Virtual Machine, take and delete and snapshot, add a new hard disk and expand a currently attached hard disk, as well as gather information for data centers, clusters, host systems, and virtual machines. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed in efficiently maintaining a VMware infrastructure with Ansible Automation. You’ll also be able to save time and reduce manual errors using simple human-readable automation technology.

What You’ll Learn

• Automate your VMware infrastructure using Ansible code
• Install Ansible in operating systems such as RedHat, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.
• Write and execute your first Ansible Playbook code
• Troubleshoot the most common error messages

ISBN: 978-1484288788

Ansible for Kubernetes by Example

Automate Your Kubernetes Cluster with Ansible

Learn how to automate your Kubernetes infrastructure using Ansible. This book will enable you to automate more tasks and save time with this human-readable platform.

Containerized microservices deployed via Kubernetes allows you to save time, reduce human interaction and errors, and create applications that are more robust. You’ll learn how to automate the most redundant activities such as reports, services, the launch of a pod, adding permanent storage, configuring load balancing, and adding or modifying any Kubernetes parameter. You’ll also gain an understanding of end-to-end use cases and how advanced cluster automation, such as Helm packages and node states, are evolving.

Each lesson utilizes a specific use-case for the modern Kubernetes cluster and focuses on a single module from the most crucial parameter, complete with code demonstrations. Each code example is battle-proven in real-life with console interaction and verification.

What You’ll Learn

• Automate Kubernetes cluster management, cloud services, pods, and storage with Ansible
• Configure your Ansible controller node
• Write and execute Ansible Playbook code that follows best practices
• Augment your productivity by applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Troubleshoot Ansible

ISBN: 978-1484288788

Hands-on Ansible Automation

Streamline your workflow and simplify your tasks with Ansible

Key Features

• Comprehensive coverage of Ansible essentials and practical applications in Linux and Windows environments.
• Step-by-step guidance for setting up and configuring Ansible environments.
• In-depth exploration of playbook development for automating configuration management, deployment, and orchestration tasks.
• Advanced techniques for leveraging Ansible Automation Platform and Morpheus for enhanced performance.
• Troubleshooting strategies and best practices to overcome roadblocks in Ansible implementation.
• Enhance Ansible workflows with troubleshooting, best practices, and integrations for optimal performance and expand capabilities in configuration management, GUI, RBAC, and third-party systems.

ISBN: 978-9355515599

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Modernize your organization with automation and Infrastructure as Code

Key Features

• Efficient application deployment using Ansible playbooks, content creation, and containerized workflows.
• Use Hybrid cloud environments with Kubernetes for scalable containerized applications.
• Get Architectural insight into Ansible Automation Platform.
• Dashboard management with Ansible Tower dashboard for efficient platform administration.

ISBN: 978-9355518996

Learn Ansible

2nd edition - Automate your cloud infrastructure, security configuration, and application deployment with Ansible. Author: Russ McKendrick Technical review: Luca Berton. Published: 31st May 2024

Key Features

• Write roles to automate everything, from basic apps to the entire cloud infrastructure
• Leverage Ansible’s module ecosystem to streamline tasks across cloud platforms, operating systems, and apps
• Adopt DevOps practices and integrate Ansible with CI/CD platforms to streamline automation workflows