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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)

Installing Ansible Tower

Ansible Tower is a licensed tool. However, it can be used to manage, at most, 10 servers using a free license. The Tower setup can be downloaded from Ansible's official website (https://www.ansible.com/products/tower). Once the compressed tar archive is obtained, then we can install Ansible Tower. It should not come as surprise that we have to use Ansible for installing Ansible Tower.

Another point to note is that Ansible Tower is only supported for the following operating systems:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 64-bit
  • CentOS 6 64-bit
  • CentOS 7 64-bit
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit

More detailed requirements can be found inside Ansible Tower's documentation (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/2.4.0/html/quickinstall/prepare.html#primary-requirements).

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