Red Hat Ansible Automation

Intro

Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is powerful. But if you’ve ever tried setting it up or scaling it in production, you know—it can also be painfully complex.

From hybrid cloud deployments and role-based access control to containerized execution environments and GitOps workflows, AAP has grown dramatically with version 2.0.

So where do you even start?

📘 Enter Mastering Ansible Automation Platform by Luca Berton, the creator of Ansible Pilot. With 5+ years of hands-on AAP experience and 15,000+ students trained, Luca distills it all into one actionable, beginner-friendly book.

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🧱 What You’ll Learn Inside

This isn’t just documentation reworded. This is real-world know-how, packed into a step-by-step format.

🔍 Understanding the Architecture

• AAP 2.0’s container-based design
• Automation Controller vs Automation Hub
• Event-Driven Automation (EDA) and Automation Mesh
• Execution Environments: what they are, why they matter

🏗️ Installation & Setup – Made Simple

From basic installs to advanced configurations:

• Single-node setups with internal DBs
• Multi-node with external databases
• Load balancers, automation mesh, and redundancy strategies
• Subscription activation, service management, backups, & logging

Yes, it’s complex — but Luca walks you through every option with diagrams, use cases, and tips.

🔐 Authentication, RBAC & Enterprise Integration

Configuring user roles shouldn’t feel like hacking a maze of LDAP or AD queries.

You’ll learn how to:

• Set up secure RBAC
• Integrate with LDAP, Azure AD, and more
• Write clean queries for user groups
• Automate team access without headaches

🛠️ DevOps, GitOps, and Ansible AI

Modern automation isn’t just about playbooks — it’s about:

• Writing clean code using Git workflows
• Leveraging Ansible Lightspeed (AI-assisted coding)
• Speeding up development and reducing errors
• Validating your Ansible content with quality dashboards

Luca even walks through integrating with upstream tools like AWX, explaining what’s compatible and what’s not.

☁️ Hybrid Cloud & Network Automation

If you’re deploying to AWS, Azure, GCP, or using Kubernetes, this book has you covered.

You’ll explore:

• Managing cloud workloads via AAP
• Automating Cisco network backups
• Interfacing with Nutanix, Kubernetes, and vendor-neutral infrastructures
• Building reusable workflows that scale across environments

🧩 Advanced Use Cases: Custom Modules, Plugins & Monitoring

Push your AAP skills to the next level:

• Create custom plugins, callback scripts, and lookup tools
• Analyze automation quality using Prometheus + Grafana
• Track execution metrics and system health
• Build automation that runs itself — and tells you when it needs help

🎓 Designed for Beginners, Built for Experts

Whether you’re just starting with AAP or you’re deep in enterprise automation, this book:

• Makes tough topics digestible
• Includes copy-paste-ready examples
• Guides you through real troubleshooting steps
• Helps you unlock the full potential of Red Hat’s automation ecosystem

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📖 Table of Contents

📌 Final Thoughts

The Ansible Automation Platform is one of the most powerful orchestration tools available today — but without the right guidance, it can feel overwhelming.

Luca Berton’s book doesn’t just teach you how AAP works.
It teaches you how to master it.

✅ Configure smarter.
✅ Automate faster.
✅ Troubleshoot like a pro.
✅ Scale with confidence.

📘 Ready to go from “where do I start?” to “I’ve got this”?
This is the book you’ve been waiting for.