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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

Integrating Ansible roles with tower

So far, we have just executed ad-hoc commands, however, the real strength of Ansible lies in playbooks. Ansible allows us to add multiple Ansible code bases (playbooks, roles, variables, and so on). While Ansible Tower supports keeping the Ansible code in the Ansible Tower server's project directory, it is a practice that we would like to discourage. We strongly recommend using a version control system like Git for keeping Ansible code. For our example, we would use GitHub.

Let us integrate our GitHub repository (https://github.com/ansible-cookbook/ansible-tower-example.git) in Ansible Tower.

How to do it...

Executing playbooks from a Git repository involves two steps: first, we create...

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