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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)

Using Docker Compose to manage services

In this recipe, we will learn about how to use Docker Compose for managing services. Before we jump into defining a task for Docker Compose, we should know what Docker Compose is about.

Docker Compose is a tool that can define multiple containers that are required for a service in a single file. It can bring up all containers, network links, volumes, and so on with just a single command.

Docker Compose's main functionality is to support microservice architecture, that is, bringing up containers and the links between them. Docker Compose's scope, however, is limited to a single host. If we want to use multiple hosts, we should instead look at projects, such as Kubernetes and Docker Swarm.

How to do it...

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