Creating Ansible playbooks for creating VPC

We will be creating Ansible playbooks for managing VPC.

How to do it...

The following are the steps for creating Ansible playbooks: 

1. Create a new playbook. The folder structure will be as follows:

[root@ansible ~ ]# cd /etc/ansible/
[root@ansible ansible]# mkdir playbook
[root@ansible ansible]# mkdir playbook/roles
[root@ansible ansible]# mkdir playbook/roles/vpc
[root@ansible ansible]# mkdir playbook/roles/vpc/{defaults,tasks}
[root@ansible ansible]# cd playbook

2. Create the configuration file in the playbook folder awsvpc.yml.

[root@ansible playbook]# vim awsvpc.yml
---
- name: Create VPC
 hosts: localhost
 gather_facts: no
 roles:
 - vpc

1. 1. Create a file inventory in playbook folder and can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/AWS-Networking-Cookbook.

[root@ansible playbook]# vim inventory
[local]
localhost ansible_connection=local

1. 2. Create a file main.yml in playbook/roles/vpc/tasks/ folder. This file will contain the configurations required for...