Ansible – reviewing the code and deploying our infrastructure

While we have covered Terraform in detail in this chapter, we will only quickly review the Ansible code here as we will go into a lot more detail on an Ansible deployment in the next chapter, Chapter 5, Deploying to Amazon Web Services.

Like Terraform, the Ansible code is split into roles; this makes our site.yml file look like the following:

- name: Deploy and configure the Azure Environment
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: true
  vars_files:
    - group_vars/azure.yml
    - group_vars/common.yml
  roles:
    - roles/create-randoms
    - roles/azure-rg
    - roles/azure-virtualnetwork
    - roles/azure-storage
    - roles/azure-mysql
    - roles/azure-vm-admin
   ...