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.