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Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

  • Length: 200 pages
  • Edition: 1
  • Publisher:
  • Publication Date: 2018-02-28
  • ISBN-10: 178829582X
  • ISBN-13: 9781788295826
  • Sales Rank: #2019076 (See Top 100 Books)
Description

Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook: Write Ansible playbooks for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack

Orchestrate your cloud infrastructure

Key Features

  • Recipe-based approach to install and configure cloud resources using Ansible
  • Covers various cloud-related modules and their functionalities
  • Includes deployment of a sample application to the cloud resources that we create
  • Learn the best possible way to manage and automate your cloud infrastructure

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

  • Use Ansible Vault to protect secrets
  • Understand how Ansible modules interact with cloud providers to manage resources
  • Build cloud-based resources for your application
  • Create resources beyond simple virtual machines
  • Write tasks that can be reused to create resources multiple times
  • Work with self-hosted clouds such as OpenStack and Docker
  • Deploy a multi-tier application on various cloud providers

Who This Book Is For

If you are a system administrator, infrastructure engineer, or a DevOps engineer who wants to obtain practical knowledge about Ansible and its cloud deliverables, then this book is for you. Recipes in this book are designed for people who would like to manage their cloud infrastructures efficiently using Ansible, which is regarded as one of the best tools for cloud management and automation.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Getting Started with Ansible and Cloud Management
Chapter 2 Using Ansible to manage AWS Elastic Compute CLoud (EC2)
Chapter 3 Managing Amazon Web Services with Ansible
Chapter 4 Exploring Google Cloud Platform with Ansible
Chapter 5 Building Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure and Ansible
Chapter 6 Working with Digital Ocean and Ansible
Chapter 7 Running Containers with Docker and Ansible
Chapter 8 Diving into OpenStack with Ansible
Chapter 9 Ansible Tower

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