The creation and termination of servers
In this chapter, we will learn how to use some third-party tools that will help us in building the required architecture. Like all of the sections in this chapter, the information will be broken down into steps:
- The first tool we will be learning about is Ansible. It is a provisioning and orchestrating tool, that helps in automating several parts of an infrastructure. Depending on when you are reading this book, the Ansible project's homepage (https://www.ansible.com/) will look something like this:
- The installation process for Ansible is different for different operating systems. The instructions for some popular operating systems are as follows:
- For Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ansible
- For Linux:
git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git cd ./ansible make rpm sudo rpm -Uvh ./rpm-build/ansible-*.noarch.rpm
- For OS X:
sudo...
