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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)

Creating snapshots for backup

Often we will need to create snapshots of instances. These can be used as backup or to create more instances to scale up . Typically, a daily or weekly cron of the Ansible task would help in maintaining a periodic backup.

How to do it...

We can use the gce_snapshot module to create a snapshot:

- name: create snapshot of instance
gce_snapshot:
instance_name: app
snapshot_name: app-snapshot
state: present
service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
tags:
- recipe4

How...