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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)

Managing network and firewall rules

By default, inbound connections are not allowed to any of the instances. One way to allow the traffic is by allowing incoming connections to a certain port of instances carrying a particular tag. For example, we can tag all the webservers as http and allow incoming connections to port 80 and 8080 for all the instances carrying the http tag.

How to do it...

  1. We will create a firewall rule with source tag using the gce_net module:
- name: Create Firewall Rule with Source Tags
gce_net:
name: my-network
fwname: "allow-http"
allowed: tcp:80,8080
state: "present"
target_tags: "http"
subnet_region: us-west1
service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email...