Ansible for AWS
Ansible for AWS
A simple way to provision and manage your Amazon Cloud infrastructure
About the Book
Ansible is an IT automation tool. Learn how to use Ansible to easily provision and manage your Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud infrastructure. Automated infrastructure provisioning and management is a key component of Continuous Delivery and DevOps culture.
This book will show you how to use Ansible's cloud modules to easily provision and manage your AWS resources including EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling, IAM and Route 53. This book takes you beyond the basics of Ansible, showing you real-world examples of AWS infrastructure automation and management using Ansible, with detailed steps, complete codes, and screen captures from AWS console. Also, learn how to use Ansible dynamic inventory to easily manage EC2 instances configuration.
The example projects will help you grasp the concepts quickly. From a single WordPress site to a highly available and scalable WordPress site, Ansible will help you automate all tasks.
Examples in this book are tested with the latest version of Ansible (2.1.x as of this writing).
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Table of Contents
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- About the Author
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Preface
- What this book covers
- Who this book is for
- What you need for this book
- Conventions
- Example Code Files
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with AWS
- What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
- Setting Up Your AWS Account
- AWS Management Console
- Create Your First EC2 Instance
- Connect to Your Instance
- Terminate Your Instance
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Chapter 2: Getting Started with Ansible
- What You’ll Need
- Installing Ansible
- SSH Keys
- Inventory
- Your First Commands
- Playbooks
- Your First Playbook
- Roles and Include Statements
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Chapter 3: EC2 Provisioning and Configuration Management with Ansible
- Python boto
- AWS Access Keys
- Cloud Modules
- Key Pair
- Security Groups
- EC2 Provisioning
- Elastic IP Address (EIP)
- Configuration Management
- Dynamic Inventory
- Elastic Block Store (EBS)
- Instance Profile
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Chapter 4: Project 1 - A WordPress Site
- Provisioning Playbook
- Variables File
- Roles Directory
- common roles
- web roles
- mysql roles
- wordpress roles
- site.yml
- Directory Structure
- Playbook Run
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Chapter 5: Route 53 Management with Ansible
- Hosted Zones
- DNS Records Management
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Chapter 6: VPC Provisioning with Ansible
- The Default VPC
- Getting Started with VPC
- VPC Provisioning
- VPC Security Groups
- EC2-VPC Provisioning
- NAT Instance
- Multi-AZ Deployment
- Ansible in VPC
- OpenVPN Server
- Getting VPC and Subnet ID
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Chapter 7: RDS Provisioning with Ansible
- Introduction
- Getting Started with RDS
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rds_subnet_groupModule -
rds_param_groupModule -
rdsModule
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Chapter 8: S3 Management with Ansible
- Introduction
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Ansible’s
s3Module - Backup Storage
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Using
s3cmdwith Ansible
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Chapter 9: Using AWS CLI with Ansible
- Installing the AWS CLI
- Configuring the AWS CLI
- Using the AWS CLI
- AWS CLI in Ansible Playbook
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Chapter 10: Project 2 - A Multi-Tier WordPress Site
- Multi-AZ RDS Provisioning
- Master WordPress Instance
- Next Steps
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Chapter 11: Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
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The
ec2_amiModule - Creating Custom AMI
- Deleting Custom AMI
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The
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Chapter 12: Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- What Is Auto Scaling?
- How Auto Scaling Works
- The Architecture
- VPC Update
- Security Groups Update
- Getting Started with Auto Scaling
- Scaling the Size of Your Auto Scaling Group
- Load Balance Your Auto Scaling Group
- Getting Started with ELB
- Attaching Load Balancer to ASG
- Scheduled Scaling
- Dynamic Scaling
- Scaling Based on Metrics
- More About Auto Scaling
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Chapter 13: ELB and Auto Scaling with Ansible
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The
ec2_elb_lbModule -
The
ec2_lcModule -
The
ec2_asgModule -
The
ec2_scaling_policyModule -
The
ec2_metric_alarmModule - The Playbook
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The
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Chapter 14: Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Getting Started with IAM
- IAM Best Practices
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iamModule -
iam_policyModule - Example Playbooks
- Instance Profile
- Appendix A: Installing Ansible from Source
- Appendix B: What’s New in Ansible v2
- Notes
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