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Learn Ansible

You're reading from   Learn Ansible Automate your cloud infrastructure, security configuration, and application deployment with Ansible

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835088913
Length 414 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introducing, Installing, and Running Ansible FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Installing and Running Ansible 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Ansible Galaxy 4. Chapter 3: The Ansible Commands 5. Part 2: Deploying Applications
6. Chapter 4: Deploying a LAMP Stack 7. Chapter 5: Deploying WordPress 8. Chapter 6: Targeting Multiple Distributions 9. Chapter 7: Ansible Windows Modules 10. Part 3: Network and Cloud Automation
11. Chapter 8: Ansible Network Modules 12. Chapter 9: Moving to the Cloud 13. Chapter 10: Building Out a Cloud Network 14. Chapter 11: Highly Available Cloud Deployments 15. Chapter 12: Building Out a VMware Deployment 16. Part 4: Ansible Workflows
17. Chapter 13: Scanning Your Ansible Playbooks 18. Chapter 14: Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible 19. Chapter 15: Using Ansible with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps 20. Chapter 16: Introducing Ansible AWX and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 21. Chapter 17: Next Steps with Ansible 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Launching a Windows server in Azure

We will not use Ansible to deploy the Azure resources as we will do in Chapter 9, Moving to the Cloud; instead, we will use the Azure CLI to launch our VM.

Note

As some of the commands in this chapter will be pretty long, I will break them up with a backslash. In Linux command lines, the backslash (\) followed by a newline is a line continuation character. It lets you split a single command over multiple lines for better readability.

Start by changing to the Chapter07 folder within your checked-out copy of the repository that accompanies this title and run the following commands:

$ MYIP=$(curl https://api.ipify.org 2>/dev/null)
$ VMPASSWORD=$(openssl rand -base64 24)
$ echo $VMPASSWORD > VMPASSWORD

The first two commands set two variables on your command line; the first uses the ipify service (https://www.ipify.org/) to populate the $MYIP variable with the public IP address of your current network session.

The second generates...

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