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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 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

Using dynamic inventory

Managing inventory in a text file can be a problem. A large cluster could overwhelm the maintainer of the inventory. On top of that, often the instances can be scaled at short notice. Keeping this in mind, we can use dynamic inventory to build and run playbooks on instances based on specific parameters. A list of instances is generated in real time, eliminating the need for maintaining an inventory manually.

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