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Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

You're reading from Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook Write Ansible playbooks for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788295826

Length 200 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Patawari

Aggarwal

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Ansible and Cloud Management FREE CHAPTER

2. Using Ansible to Manage AWS EC2

3. Managing Amazon Web Services with Ansible

4. Exploring Google Cloud Platform with Ansible

5. Building Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure and Ansible

6. Working with DigitalOcean and Ansible

7. Running Containers with Docker and Ansible

8. Diving into OpenStack with Ansible

9. Ansible Tower

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Using dynamic inventory

As we have established in previous chapters, managing a text-based inventory can be a pain. There are chances that a manually managed inventory can consist of stale data that can impact our applications. Ansible provides dynamic inventory to address this.

Ansible's GitHub repository has scripts for various infrastructure providers, including a script for DigitalOcean (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/contrib/inventory/digital_ocean.py).

How to do it…

We need to download this script and configure it to use our credentials:

$ curl https://github.com/ansible/ansible/raw/devel/contrib/inventory/digital_ocean.py > digital_ocean.py
$ chmod +x digital_ocean.py
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/digital_ocean.ini > digital_ocean.ini

We need to append the following line in the digital_ocean.ini for authentication:

api_token = 5fcd456fb9f5hg5f29a17df55678j4fd4ecbdfghjkf4c215fghjbaa39bah7tc47m

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Authors (2)

Patawari

Patawari

Aditya Patawari is a Systems Engineer by profession, and just loves to play around with Linux and other open source technologies. He works on various parts of system lifecycles, and handles infrastructure automation and scaling of applications. He is also a contributor at Fedora project, and can be heard talking about the same along with the Linux systems automation at several conferences and events. He has worked on Ansible both at BrowserStack.com where he leads a team of systems engineers and at Fedora Project. I would like to thank my family with being patient with me. I would also appreciate my colleagues at BrowserStack for their support and my fellow contributors at Fedora Project who taught me so much. Lastly, a big thanks to all my friends for being there for me when I just could not manage it all.

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Aggarwal

Aggarwal

Vikas Aggarwal is an Infrastructure Engineer and a SRE, employed with HelpShift Technologies where he is a part of the Operations team, codifying automation for managing numerous deployed application clusters across different cloud services. He also helped his previous firm Browserstack in introducing a lot of automation to deploy and manage a hybrid cloud of thousands of servers. He has matured his skills in cloud and automation in course of his career by investing big-time deploying cloud automation with various tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and more.

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