Chapter 1. Automation of JBoss Web Server deployments by using an Ansible collection
Ansible is an information technology (IT) automation engine that you can use to automate and simplify cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intraservice orchestration, and other tasks across your IT enterprise.
An Ansible collection is a standardized distribution format for reusable Ansible content such as playbooks, roles, modules, and plug-ins. Red Hat provides a series of prepackaged Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections. You can use these Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections to enable the automated deployment of various Red Hat Runtimes products such as Red Hat JBoss Web Server in your system.
1.1. Ansible concepts and benefits
Ansible includes various elements such as playbooks, roles, content collections, and automation execution environments. Using Ansible to automate IT processes, workflows, and infrastructure lifecycles provides multiple benefits to your enterprise. If you are unfamiliar with Ansible architecture or you want more information about the benefits of using Ansible, refer to the following Additional resources links.
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1.2. JBoss Web Server collection
For general information about the JBoss Web Server collection, refer to the Ansible Collection - redhat.jws page in Ansible automation hub. The Ansible Collection - redhat.jws page includes information about the roles that the collection contains. You can click the name of a role to view details about the purpose of this role, any requirements or dependencies, and the list of variables and default settings that the role uses to complete automation tasks.
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