Chapter 9, Building Out a Cloud Network

1. Which two environment variables are used by AWS modules to read your access ID and secret?

They are AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_KEY

2. True or false: Every time you run the playbook, you will get a new VPC.

False

3. State and explain why we are not bothering to register the results of creating subnets.

So that we can group together a list of subnet IDs by the role we have assigned them later in the playbook run

4. What is the difference between using cidr_ip and group_id when defining a rule in a security group?

cidr_ip creates a rule that locks the supplied port down to a certain IP address where as group_id locks the post down to all hosts that are in the group_id you supply

5. True or false: The order in which security groups are added when using rules that have group_id defined doesn't matter.

False