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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)

Ansible Tower API

At times, we may need to invoke a certain operation on Ansible Tower programmatically. Ansible Tower provides a rich API to take care of most of the operations. Let's have a look at a few API operations using curl. All the API requests would require us to supply authentication information. Additionally, we would add -s for a silent output and -k for skipping SSL verification. The -k flag need not be used if the SSL has been set up correctly.

How to do it...

  1. Let's first get the inventory end points:
$ curl -s -k -u admin:mysecretpassword https://192.168.0.102/api/v2/ 
  1. This would output a JSON file. If it is too hard to read, we can pipe the output to the Python json.tool module, like this:
$...