Table of Contents

1. Getting Started

2. The Inventory File

3. Installing Wordpress

4. Ansible Roles

5. Parameterising Playbooks

6. Writing Your Own Modules

7. Orchestrating AWS

8. Testing with Test Kitchen

9. Advanced Ansible

Appendix A. Installing Ansible

Appendix B. YAML Files

About the Author

Michael Heap is a software engineer from London, England. Day to day, he runs a team dedicated to reducing technical debt across a data processing platform with a wide range of technologies – from C++ to Java to Golang to PHP. When he’s not working, Michael enjoys playing squash, travelling and trying to read every page on Wikipedia.