Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

Managing network interfaces

An Azure virtual machine can be attached to multiple network interface cards. With a network interface card, the virtual machine can access the internet and communicate with other resources both inside and outside Azure Cloud. In the recipe, Creating an Azure virtual machine, while creating a virtual machine, it creates a default NIC card for the VM with default configurations. In this recipe, we will see how to create, delete, and manage a NIC with custom settings.

Before we move ahead and create a NIC, we should be aware of the following term:

• Virtual network: This is a logical separation of the network within the Azure Cloud. A virtual network can be assigned a CIDR block. Any virtual network has the following ...