Technical requirements
Given that we will be launching two different operating systems, we will be changing the approach that we have taken in previous chapters and launching a pair of virtual machines in a cloud provider rather than two different virtual machines on our local machines.
The primary reason for this is that Multipass only really supports Ubuntu machines as it was created by Canonical, the creators and maintainers of Ubuntu, to give people a quick, easy, and consistent way to launch an Ubuntu virtual machine across multiple host platforms.
As we will be looking at automating cloud deployments in Chapter 9, Moving to the Cloud, we won’t use Ansible to deploy the cloud resources for this chapter.
For this chapter, I would recommend using a cloud provider such as DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/) or Linode (http://www.linode.com/), both of whom support the operating systems we will be covering in this chapter and whose virtual machine costs start...
