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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)

Creating EC2 instances

Elastic Cloud Compute or EC2, forms a central part of Amazon Web Services. It is one of the most popular services by AWS, which provides rented virtual computers (called instances) under various capacities in terms of CPU, memory, disk, network, and so on where users can run and host their applications.

Getting ready

Before going ahead and launching an EC2 Instance, we will require resources we created in preceding tasks; that is, security groups and VPC (subnets).

Creating an EC2 instance requires the following basic parameters:

  • Instance type, which determines hardware of the host computer used for our instance. An instance type offers a wide range of compute, memory, network, and storage capacity...