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Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295826
Length 200 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aditya Patawari Aditya Patawari
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Vikas Aggarwal Vikas Aggarwal
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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

Managing GCE images

Images are a collection of a boot loader, operating system, and a root filesystem. There are public images provided by Google and various open source communities. We can use these images to create an instance. GCE also provides us capability to create our own image which we can use to boot instances.

It is important to understand the difference between an image and a snapshot. A snapshot is incremental but it is just a disk snapshot. Due to its incremental nature, it is better for creating backups. Images consist of more information such as a boot loader. Images are non-incremental in nature. However, it is possible to import images from a different cloud provider or datacenter to GCE.

Another reason we recommend snapshots for backup is that taking a snapshot does not require us to shut down the instance, whereas building an image would require us to shut down...

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