Exercises

In this chapter, we covered the fundamentals of Ansible and ways to use it with Docker and Kubernetes. As exercises, try the following tasks:

1. Create the server infrastructure and use Ansible to manage it:
   1. Connect a physical machine or run a VirtualBox machine to emulate the remote server.
   2. Configure SSH access to the remote machine (SSH keys).
   3. Install Python on the remote machine.
   4. Create an Ansible inventory with the remote machine.
   5. Run the Ansible ad hoc command (with the ping module) to check that the infrastructure is configured correctly.
2. Create a Python-based hello world web service and deploy it in a remote machine using Ansible playbook:
   1. The service can look exactly the same as we described in the exercises for the chapter.
   2. Create a playbook that deploys the service into the remote machine.
   3. Run the ansible-playbook command and check whether the service was deployed.
3. Provision a GCP virtual machine instance using Terraform:
   1. Create...