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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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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Ansible and Cloud Management FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Ansible to Manage AWS EC2 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

Creating snapshots for backup

Often we will need to create snapshots of instances. These can be used as backup or to create more instances to scale up . Typically, a daily or weekly cron of the Ansible task would help in maintaining a periodic backup.

How to do it...

We can use the gce_snapshot module to create a snapshot:

- name: create snapshot of instance
gce_snapshot:
instance_name: app
snapshot_name: app-snapshot
state: present
service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
tags:
- recipe4

How...

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