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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)

Diving into OpenStack with Ansible

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Preparing Ansible to work with OpenStack
  • Adding a keypair
  • Managing security groups
  • Managing network resources
  • Managing Nova compute instances
  • Creating a Cinder volume and attaching it to a Nova compute instance
  • Managing objects in Swift
  • User management
  • Creating a flavor
  • Adding an image
  • Dynamic inventory
  • Deploying the phonebook application