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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)

Autoscaling using Callback

So far, we have looked at methods where we have invoked the templates manually. However, in a cloud infrastructure, we often scale infrastructure dynamically. As a result, executing jobs manually can be time-consuming. Ansible Tower provides us a way so that instances can call the jobs themselves without actually using the password. The concept where an instance calls up a job is called a Callback, so let's go ahead and create a Callback URL.

How to do it...

  1. We should go to the Templates page and click on the name of the template.
  2. Here, we need to scroll down to the options and check Allow Provisioning Callbacks.
  3. We have to provide a config key. Ideally, this should be a long string. We can...