Book Image

Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

By : Aditya Patawari, Vikas Aggarwal
Book Image

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)

Getting started with Tower

Once the setup script has finished, we can browse the dashboard using a web browser. We have to log in as an admin user, using the same password we just used in the inventory file. When we log in to Ansible Tower for the first time, it asks for a license. So, let's provide a license to Ansible Tower.

How to do it...

After the first login, we are required to supply a license file to Ansible Tower. To do this, we can click on the REQUEST LICENSE button and get a license. There are two kinds of license: the first is an Enterprise License, which unlocks features such as LDAP integration and enterprise support, but this license has a trial period of 30 days. The second one is the Limited Node License...