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Learning Ansible 2.7

You're reading from   Learning Ansible 2.7 Automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789954333
Length 266 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Creating a Web Server Using Ansible
2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Automating Simple Tasks 4. Section 2: Deploying Playbooks in a Production Environment
5. Scaling to Multiple Hosts 6. Handling Complex Deployment 7. Going Cloud 8. Getting Notification from Ansible 9. Section 3: Deploying an Application with Ansible
10. Creating a Custom Module 11. Debugging and Error Handling 12. Complex Environments 13. Section 4: Deploying an Application with Ansible
14. Introducing Ansible for Enterprises 15. Getting Started with AWX 16. Working with AWX Users, Permissions, and Organizations 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Provisioning machines in Azure

Lately, Azure is becoming one of the biggest clouds, mainly in some companies.

As you may imagine, Ansible has Azure-specific modules to create Azure environments without pain.

The first thing we will need on Azure, after having created the account, is to set up the authorization.

There are several ways to do it, but the easiest one is probably creating the ~/.azure/credentials file in the INI format containing a [default] section with subscription_id and, alternatively, client_id and secret or ad_user and password.

An example of this would be the following file:

[default]
subscription_id: __AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID__
client_id: __AZURE_CLIENT_ID__
secret: __AZURE_SECRET__

After this, we need a resource group in which we then will create all our resources.

To do so, we can use the azure_rm_resourcegroup, with the following syntax:

    - name: Create resource...
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