Ansible Infrastructure Orchestration: Practical Automation Patterns for Cloud, Containers, and Edge

Ansible Infrastructure Orchestration: Practical Automation Patterns for Cloud, Containers, and Edge is a hands-on guide for engineers and IT leaders who need to design, deploy, and operate resilient infrastructure across cloud, container, and edge environments. Starting with clear explanations of Ansible’s architecture—agentless execution, inventory models, modules, and plugin mechanics—the book grounds readers in the fundamental concepts of idempotency, templating, and reliable configuration management so automation behaves predictably at scale.

Building on those foundations, the book presents battle-tested patterns for structuring scalable playbooks and roles, advanced error handling, and robust testing practices. You’ll learn to author custom modules and plugins, implement dynamic inventories for hybrid and multi-cloud estates, and adopt secure variable and secret management strategies tailored to distributed and containerized workloads. Practical examples show how to orchestrate across Kubernetes, public clouds, and constrained edge nodes while preserving reproducibility and operational clarity.

Security, compliance, and governance are treated as integral parts of orchestration: the book covers policy-as-code, least-privilege access models, and techniques for protecting automation assets. It also maps automation to modern delivery pipelines—CI/CD integration, event-driven responses, and self-healing patterns—so teams can move from manual fixes to automated, auditable operations. Rounded out by real-world case studies and a forward-looking discussion on AI-assisted automation, this book equips practitioners to deliver infrastructure that is secure, observable, and truly autonomous.