As an OpenStack operator quotas will be a focus on yours, so any effort in being able to streamlet that process will be beneficial. Ansible is the key to being able to simplify repeated tasks such as this. Just as in the previous chapter, you can use this role in combination with others as many times as you want. This is why, you want to design your roles to be the base generic task as much as possible .
Some of the things we covered in this chapter are defining what a quota within OpenStack is. We then took that knowledge and learned how to update a quota for a project/user using the OpenStack CLI. We applied some base principles as to why you would use the default cloud quotas and how to update them appropriately. Next, we reviewed how to reset any of the custom quotas created. Finally, we developed our very own Ansible playbook and role to automate updating custom project/user quotas.
Let's now to move on to the next chapter where we will take on the administrative task of snapshotting...