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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 objects in Swift

Swift provides object storage for OpenStack. Here, we create containers and upload objects inside the containers. Remember that a container is a virtual entity for organizing the data better.

How to do it...

  1. Let's begin with creating a container, as follows:
- name: create an object container
os_object:
state: present
container: backup
  1. Now let's push a sample object here, as follows:
- name: upload backup.tar to backup container
os_object:
filename: /opt/backup.tar
container: backup
name: backup.tar
state: present

How it works...

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