Ansible 10 Made Simple: Beginner's Guide to Variables, Playbooks, Inventories, Execution Environments & Event-Driven Automation

By Hollis Denning

Unlock the full power of Ansible 10 and transform the way you automate infrastructure, applications, and hybrid cloud environments.
Whether you're a DevOps engineer, sysadmin, cloud beginner, or SRE, this hands-on guide gives you everything you need to move from "just getting started" to deploying production-grade automation workflows with confidence.

Unlike outdated Ansible books, this edition is fully updated for Ansible 10, ansible-core 2.17, Execution Environments, ansible-navigator, and Event-Driven Ansible (EDA). Every concept is reinforced with step-by-step practice labs, reusable templates, CI/CD integration, and a full-stack capstone project.

Inside this book you will learn how to:

Install and run Ansible 10 with Execution Environments and ansible-navigator.Master variables, facts, Jinja2 templating, and debugging techniques.Build and manage static & dynamic inventories for AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and Kubernetes.Write scalable playbooks and reusable roles tested with Molecule and ansible-lint.Automate Linux, Windows, and network devices in a single workflow.Package and standardize automation with custom Execution Environments.Integrate with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) for continuous testing and deployment.Harness Event-Driven Ansible with rulebooks that enable self-healing, scaling, and auto-remediation.Deploy a production-grade end-to-end stack (Linux, Windows, cloud, and networking) in the Capstone Project.What makes this book different?Purely practical: Each chapter includes hands-on labs you can run locally or in the cloud.Future-proof: Written for the latest Ansible 10 workflows, not older 2.x releases.Complete: Covers not just playbooks, but roles, Execution Environments, CI/CD, and EDA.Beginner-friendly: Designed to simplify the concepts users struggle with most - variable precedence, inventories, and dynamic templating.Enterprise-ready: Includes Vault recipes, troubleshooting guides, and AAP 2.5 rulebook examples.Who this book is forDevOps Engineers who need automation that scales.System Administrators looking to simplify multi-platform operations.Cloud Practitioners automating AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) implementing CI/CD pipelines and self-healing.Beginners who want a clean, structured, and modern introduction to Ansible.

By the time you finish, you'll have a battle-tested toolkit of playbooks, roles, inventories, pipelines, and rulebooks that you can reuse, extend, and deploy in real-world environments.

Stop fighting with outdated guides. Start building modern automation with Ansible 10 - today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FT93VWZ2
• ISBN13: 9798267778954
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"