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Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

By : Aditya Patawari, Vikas Aggarwal
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Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

By: Aditya Patawari, Vikas Aggarwal

Overview of this book

Ansible has a large collection of inbuilt modules to manage various cloud resources. The book begins with the concepts needed to safeguard your credentials and explain how you interact with cloud providers to manage resources. Each chapter begins with an introduction and prerequisites to use the right modules to manage a given cloud provider. Learn about Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and other providers. Each chapter shows you how to create basic computing resources, which you can then use to deploy an application. Finally, you will be able to deploy a sample application to demonstrate various usage patterns and utilities of resources.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Installing Ansible

There are many ways to install Ansible. Most of the Linux distributions has Ansible packages in their repositories. Compiling from source is also an option. However, for the sake of uniformity, we are going to use Python pip to install the same version of Ansible for all the readers.

How to do it...

The following command will fetch the Ansible source and install Ansible 2.4.0.0 on our working machine. We have used this version of Ansible throughout the book and we urge our readers to install the same:

$ sudo pip install ansible==2.4.0.0