See, now that was not so bad right? Ansible really does a great job in streamlining the efforts involved in automating OpenStack administrative tasks. You can now reuse that role over and over again, reducing the amount of time required to create users and tenants to single digit minutes. The time investment is well worth the benefits.
We covered how to create users and tenants in OpenStack via the API and CLI, gathered an understanding of basic automation considerations, and developed the Ansible playbook and role to automate the user and tenant creation.
With this great foundation, we are ready to move on to our next administrative task of customizing your cloud quotas. The next chapter will include a general understanding of what quotas are and how they are used in your OpenStack cloud. We will then transition into the exercise of creating quotas manually and then conclude with how to automate tasks with Ansible. See you in Chapter 4, Customizing Your Cloud's Quotas.