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Gain insights into Ansible for software provisioning, configuration management, and deployment. Learn about setting up environments, connecting to cloud providers, and automating processes with practical scenarios.

ansible.tar.gz

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID

AZURE_CLIENT_ID

AZURE_SECRET

AZURE_TENANT

AWS_Linux_EC2_Instance_DNS_Name

AWS_Windows_EC2_Instance_DNS_Name

Azure_Linux_VM_Instance_DNS_Name

Azure_Windows_VM_Instance_DNS_Name

AWS_Linux_EC2_Instance_IP

AWS_Windows_EC2_Instance_IP

Azure_Linux_VM_Instance_IP

Azure_Windows_VM_Instance_IP

Ansible_Password_Linux

Ansible_Password_Windows

Ansible_Vault_Password

Github_Clone_URL

AWS-Windows-EC2-Instance

AWS-Linux-EC2-Instance

AWS-Create_VPC

Azure-Create-Resource-Group 

AWS-Delete-Ansible-Environment

Azure-Create-Windows-VM

Azure-Create-Linux-VM

Azure-Delete-Ansible-Environment

Connect to Windows and Linux VMs

Run a playbook -  Ping Docker Container

Configure a web server

Configure a web server - Try it Now

Configure the DNS Names

Configure the DNS Names and IP Address

Reusable Configuration

GitHub Actions

Deploy Ansible Code

Deploy Workflow

Deploy - Exit Failure Code

Configure the DNS Names - Chocolatey

Initialize GIT

Connect to Windows and Linux VMs-Updated

Configure a web server-Updated

Configure the DNS Names-Updated

Configure the DNS Names and IP Address-Updated

Deploy Ansible Code-Updated

Deploy - Exit Failure Code-Updated

Deploy Workflow-Updated

Build - Dockerfile

Build - Dockerfile-Ansible

Ansible is one of the leading tools for software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. In this course, you will learn the ins and outs of Ansible with the goal of managing and automating your infrastructure and code’s deployment.

You will learn how to set up a docker environment, connect with cloud providers like AWS and Azure, manage infrastructure on AWS and Azure using Ansible, and lastly how to automate configuration and state management processes. Throughout each section, you will dive into the fundamentals of Ansible through practical and real-world scenarios.

By the end, you will have a great new skill that will open a lot of doors for you like cloud computing and DevOps. This will definitely be a good tool to put on your resume and will help you further your career.

Ansible: Zero to Production Ready

> ## Objective
  > The objective of this chapter is to connect Ansible to a cloud platform.
<br> 
> ### Steps
> 1. Choose the connection method.
> 2. Create environment variables.
> 3. Verify connection to the cloud platform.

# Cloud integration
Cloud computing has become ubiquitous in our daily lives. Cloud providers help abstract the complexities of managing and securing our own data centers. The _pay-as-you-go_ model helps reduce the costs and shifts focus to the more important areas.

A common misconception is that clouds are merely servers, but there is much more going on under the hood.
To name a few things, we have:
- Security Groups.
- Role-based Access Control.
- Networking

We will look at these in quite some detail in the next few chapters.

The question arises, "How does _Ansible_ help us in all this?" The answer is; Ansible provides a wide range of modules to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure. All the major cloud providers have exposed API endpoints to interact with their services. Ansible uses them in its modules internally to save us the pain of going through them ourselves. 

This API-driven management is what makes cloud computing so powerful.  






Get introduced to the objectives of this chapter and how Ansible comes into play with cloud providers.

Introduction

Getting Started

Ansible Development with Containers

Connect to the Cloud

Starting at the Source

Getting Started with Ad-Hoc Commands and Playbooks

Deploy an Ansible Development Environment

Putting the Ansible Environment to Work

Take Inventory of the Infrastructure

Build Reusable Configurations

Dynamic Inventories for Scaling

Build a CI \ CD pipeline for Ansible with Github Actions

Appendix

Introduction

Objective

Steps