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Practical Ansible 2

You're reading from   Practical Ansible 2 Automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications with Ansible 2.9

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789807462
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fabio Alessandro Locati Fabio Alessandro Locati
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James Freeman James Freeman
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible 4. Defining Your Inventory 5. Playbooks and Roles 6. Section 2: Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
7. Consuming and Creating Modules 8. Consuming and Creating Plugins 9. Coding Best Practices 10. Advanced Ansible Topics 11. Section 3: Using Ansible in an Enterprise
12. Network Automation with Ansible 13. Container and Cloud Management 14. Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies 15. Getting Started with Ansible Tower 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Complementing Google Cloud Platform with automation

Another global cloud provider is Google, with its Google Cloud Platform. Google's approach to the cloud is relatively different from other providers' since Google does not try to simulate the data center in a virtual environment. This is because Google wishes to rethink the concept of cloud provision in order to simplify it.

Installation

You need to ensure that you have the proper components installed before you can start using Google Cloud Platform with Ansible. More specifically, you will require the Python requests and google-auth modules. To install these modules, run the following command:

$ pip install requests google-auth

Now that you have all the dependencies...

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