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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 a Nova compute instance

Managing Nova compute instances, or virtual machines, is one of the main operations that we will be doing while working with OpenStack. This is where we run our applications. All of the previous recipes were steps toward creating a compute instance.

How to do it...

  1. Let's begin by creating a compute instance, as follows:
- name: Deploy an instance
os_server:
state: present
name: webserver
image: cirros
key_name: aditya
security_groups: web-sg
wait: yes
flavor: m1.tiny
auto_floating_ip: yes
network: private
meta:
hostname: webserver.localdomain
  1. If at any point we need to stop the instance, then we can use the os_server_action module as follows:
- name...