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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)

Introduction

Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure, is a cloud service from Microsoft that offers Infrastructure as a Service, (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) through its more than 600 services.

Microsoft Azure is present in 36 regions across the world. It was initially released in 2010 as Windows Azure, specifically designed for Windows virtual machines. In 2014, it was renamed Microsoft Azure; along with this, some of Microsoft's Linux services were also renamed. Some of the popular Azure services includes:

  • Virtual machines
  • SQL databases
  • Functions
  • Storage
  • Azure Active Directory