Chapter 10: Automating Linux Administration Tasks

Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.

What you will learn

• Subscribe systems, configure software channels and repositories, enable module streams, and manage RPM packages on managed hosts.
• Manage Linux users and groups, configure SSH, and modify the sudo configuration on managed hosts.
• Manage service startup, schedule processes with at, cron and systemd, reboot managed hosts, and control the default boot target.
• Partition storage devices, configure LVM, format partitions or logical volumes, mount file systems, and add swap spaces.
• Configure network settings and name resolution on managed hosts, and collect network-related facts.
• Archive files on managed hosts and restore them with the right content, ownership and permissions.

Sections

1. Managing software
2. Exercise: Managing software and subscriptions
3. Managing users and authentication
4. Exercise: Managing users and authentication
5. Managing the boot process and scheduled processes
6. Exercise: Managing the boot process and scheduled processes
7. Managing storage
8. Exercise: Managing storage
9. Managing network configuration
10. Exercise: Managing network configuration
11. Archiving and restoring files
12. Exercise: Archiving and restoring files
13. Exercise: Automating Linux administration tasks
14. Ansible Linux automation quiz
15. Ansible Linux automation cheat sheet