Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

Aditya Patawari, Vikas Aggarwal

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788298773
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Cloud Computing
• Index: Computer Science

Orchestrate your cloud infrastructureAbout 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 infrastructureWho This Book Is ForIf 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 providersIn DetailAnsible 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 approachThis 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.

Contributors

About the authors

Aditya Patawari is a Systems Engineer and DevOps practitioner. He runs a consulting company where he helps organizations with several systems engineering and DevOps tools like Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes. He is an expert in managing cloud-based infrastructure and helps companies evaluate their infrastructure against various parameters. He has contributed to various open source projects, including Fedora Project and Kubernetes.
He is an international speaker on various technical topics including Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Management, and Gap Analysis.

Writing this book would have been very difficult without the support of my family, my parents, and my brother. My friends played an important part by dragging me out of my study. I am thankful to Vikas, my coauthor, and the team at Packt. Finally, I would like to thank Puja, my wife. Without her cooperation, I could not have written this book.

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.

First and foremost, I would like to thank my coauthor Aditya Patawari for such a great mentorship, guidance, and experience. He has been a great leader throughout my experience working with him. Special than...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• Packt Upsell
• Contributors
• Preface
• Getting Started with Ansible and Cloud Management
• Using Ansible to Manage AWS EC2
• Managing Amazon Web Services with Ansible
• Exploring Google Cloud Platform with Ansible
• Building Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure and Ansible
• Working with DigitalOcean and Ansible
• Running Containers with Docker and Ansible
• Diving into OpenStack with Ansible
• Ansible Tower
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