Deploying a sample application

We will now deploy a simple phonebook application in Azure Cloud. In this application, we will create a resource group (phonebook), a virtual network (phonebook-vnet01), a subnet (phonebook-net01), a security group (phonebook) allowing HTTP and SSH traffic, a network interface with a public IP, and finally a virtual machine.

How to do it...

Using recipes from this chapter, we can create and save our playbook as phonebook.yml:

#Playbook for deploying phonebook application in Azure Cloud 
--- 
- hosts: tag_Name_first_vm 
  gather_facts: no 
  roles: 
    - phonebook 

We should note that the hosts in this playbook are set as tag_Name_first_vm (Ansible dynamic inventory), which will create an inventory for our phonebook application at runtime. We can execute our playbook using the following command:

$ ansible-playbook -i azure-rm.py --become phonebook.yml

We used a command-line inventory argument for our playbook, since we are creating our resources in the playbook itself...