Ansible 2 cloud automation cookbook : write Ansible playbooks for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack / Aditya Patawari, Vikas Aggarwal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patawari, Aditya, author.

Aggarwal, Vikas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amazon Web Services (Firm).

Windows Azure.

Information technology--Automation.

Information technology.

Cloud computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Write Ansible playbooks for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack

Ansible two cloud automation cookbook

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Orchestrate your cloud infrastructure About This Book Recipe-based approach to install and configure cloud resources using Ansible Covers various cloud-related modules and their functionalities Includes deployment of a sample application to the cloud resources that we create Learn the best possible way to manage and automate your cloud infrastructure Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator, infrastructure engineer, or a DevOps engineer who wants to obtain practical knowledge about Ansible and its cloud deliverables, then this book is for you. Recipes in this book are designed for people who would like to manage their cloud infrastructures efficiently using Ansible, which is regarded as one of the best tools for cloud management and automation. What You Will Learn Use Ansible Vault to protect secrets Understand how Ansible modules interact with cloud providers to manage resources Build cloud-based resources for your application Create resources beyond simple virtual machines Write tasks that can be reused to create resources multiple times Work with self-hosted clouds such as OpenStack and Docker Deploy a multi-tier application on various cloud providers In Detail Ansible has a large collection of inbuilt modules to manage various cloud resources. The book begins with the concepts needed to safeguard your credentials and explain how you interact with cloud providers to manage resources. Each chapter begins with an introduction and prerequisites to use the right modules to manage a given cloud provider. Learn about Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and other providers. Each chapter shows you how to create basic computing resources, which you can then use to deploy an application. Finally, you will be able to deploy a sample application to demonstrate various usage patterns and utilities of resources. Style and approach This book will help readers get started with Ansible cloud modules. It has code snippets and diagrams along with real world examples that will help you move ahead easily. Using real world scenarios, you will learn to deploy an application to cloud resources.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Getting Started with Ansible and Cloud Management

Introduction

Infrastructure as Code

Introduction of Ansible entities

Installing Ansible

How to do it…

Executing the Ansible command line to check connectivity

Working with cloud providers

Executing playbooks locally

How to do it...

Managing secrets with Ansible Vault

Understanding sample application

Using dynamic inventory

Using Ansible to Manage AWS EC2

Preparing Ansible to work with AWS

Creating and managing a VPC

Creating and managing security groups

How it works...

Creating EC2 instances

Getting ready

Creating and assigning Elastic IPs

Attaching volumes to instances

Creating an Amazon Machine Image

Creating an Elastic Load Balancer and attaching to EC2 instances

Creating auto scaling groups

Deploying the phonebook application

Managing Amazon Web Services with Ansible

Creating an RDS instance

Creating and deleting records in Route53

Managing S3 objects

Managing Lambda

Managing IAM users

Deploying the sample application

How it works.

Exploring Google Cloud Platform with Ansible

Preparing to work with Google Cloud Platform

Creating GCE instances

Attaching persistent disks

Creating snapshots for backup

Tagging an instance

Managing network and firewall rules

Managing load balancer

Managing GCE images

Creating instance templates

Creating managed instance groups

Managing objects in Google Cloud Storage

Creating a Cloud SQL instance (without Ansible module)

Building Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure and Ansible

Preparing Ansible to work with Azure

Creating an Azure virtual machine

Managing network interfaces

Working with public IP addresses

Using public IP addresses with network interfaces and virtual machines

How do it...

Managing an Azure network security group

Working with Azure Blob storage

Using a dynamic inventory

Deploying a sample application

Working with DigitalOcean and Ansible

Preparing to work with DigitalOcean

Adding SSH keys to a DigitalOcean account

Creating Droplets

Managing Block Storage.

How to do it…

Attaching a Floating IP

Using a Load Balancer

Adding an A DNS record

Running Containers with Docker and Ansible

Preparing Ansible to work with Docker

Running a container

How it works…

Downloading Docker images

Mounting volumes in containers

Setting up Docker Registry

Logging into Docker Registry

Using Docker Compose to manage services

Scaling up Compose-based service

Diving into OpenStack with Ansible

Preparing Ansible to work with OpenStack

Adding a keypair

Managing security groups

Managing network resources

Managing a Nova compute instance

Creating a Cinder volume and attaching it to a Nova compute instance

Managing objects in Swift

User management

Creating a flavor

Adding an image

Dynamic inventory

Ansible Tower

Installing Ansible Tower

Getting started with Tower

Adding a machine credential

Building a simple inventory

How to do it.

Executing ad-hoc commands

Using Ansible Tower with a cloud provider

Integrating Ansible roles with tower

Scheduling jobs

Ansible Tower API

Autoscaling using Callback

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 22, 2018).

OCLC:

1028181924