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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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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

Creating an Amazon Machine Image

We have already discussed Amazon Machine Image (AMI) while creating EC2 instances. AMI is the most common way to create backup images of an EC2 Instance. For the sake of consistency, while creating an AMI, AWS reboots the instance by default. However, this can be overridden and AMIs can be created without rebooting the EC2 Instance. AMIs store references to device mapping with corresponding volume snapshots. AMIs can be used to define a standard template which can be used while launching EC2 instances. For example, we may want to use a standard flavor of Linux with predefined system configurations across all EC2 instances. We can create an AMI for this and use it while creating EC2 instances.

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Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook
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