Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

Using recipes from this chapter, we can create and save our playbook as phonebook.yml:

#Playbook for deploying phonebook application in Azure Cloud 
--- 
- hosts: tag_Name_first_vm 
  gather_facts: no 
  roles: 
    - phonebook 

We should note that the hosts in this playbook are set as tag_Name_first_vm (Ansible dynamic inventory), which will create an inventory for our phonebook application at runtime. We can execute our playbook using the following command:

$ ansible-playbook -i azure-rm.py --become phonebook.yml 

We used a command-line inventory argument for our playbook, since we are creating our resources in the playbook itself. After successful completion of this playbook, we will be able to access our application on port 8000 and ...