Introduction

Get introduced to the objectives of this chapter.

We'll cover the following

Objective

The object of this chapter is to deploy an Ansible development environment to the cloud.
Steps

  1. Deploy Ansible development environment.
  2. Connect to the environment.

Options

  • Deploy to AWS.
  • Deploy to Azure.

Each cloud provider has its own set of tools. Azure has the Azure Resource Manager. AWS has Cloudformation. There are also several third-party tools, such as Terraform and of course, Ansible.

Your Ansible development environment will consist of two virtual machines, respectively running the

  • Windows server operating system
  • Linux operating system

You will configure these two virtual machines using Ansible as you progress throughout the course.

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