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You're reading from Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook Write Ansible playbooks for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788295826

Length 200 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Aditya Patawari

Vikas Aggarwal

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Ansible and Cloud Management

2. Using Ansible to Manage AWS EC2 FREE CHAPTER

3. Managing Amazon Web Services with Ansible

4. Exploring Google Cloud Platform with Ansible

5. Building Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure and Ansible

6. Working with DigitalOcean and Ansible

7. Running Containers with Docker and Ansible

8. Diving into OpenStack with Ansible

9. Ansible Tower

10. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Creating an Amazon Machine Image

We have already discussed Amazon Machine Image (AMI) while creating EC2 instances. AMI is the most common way to create backup images of an EC2 Instance. For the sake of consistency, while creating an AMI, AWS reboots the instance by default. However, this can be overridden and AMIs can be created without rebooting the EC2 Instance. AMIs store references to device mapping with corresponding volume snapshots. AMIs can be used to define a standard template which can be used while launching EC2 instances. For example, we may want to use a standard flavor of Linux with predefined system configurations across all EC2 instances. We can create an AMI for this and use it while creating EC2 instances.

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Authors (2)

Patawari

Aditya Patawari is a Systems Engineer by profession, and just loves to play around with Linux and other open source technologies. He works on various parts of system lifecycles, and handles infrastructure automation and scaling of applications. He is also a contributor at Fedora project, and can be heard talking about the same along with the Linux systems automation at several conferences and events. He has worked on Ansible both at BrowserStack.com where he leads a team of systems engineers and at Fedora Project. I would like to thank my family with being patient with me. I would also appreciate my colleagues at BrowserStack for their support and my fellow contributors at Fedora Project who taught me so much. Lastly, a big thanks to all my friends for being there for me when I just could not manage it all.

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Aggarwal

Chhavi Aggarwal started working on Dynamics AX in 2012. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional and has worked on both the 2009 and 2012 versions of Dynamics AX. She is an expert in SSRS reports and has also done a lot of customization and development in Dynamics AX R2/R3 through X++. She has a very deep knowledge of the technical aspects related to Dynamics AX R2/R3, as well as sound technical and logical skills in customization and development. She has also worked with the Microsoft team for standard base development.

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