Effective DevOps with AWS

Creating our Ansible repository

Our first goal with Ansible is to be able to run commands on remote hosts. In order to do that efficiently, we can configure our local environment. Because we don't want to have to redo those steps time and time again and because ultimately we want to source control everything, we will create a new Git repository. To do that, we will repeat the same steps as when we created our EffectiveDevOpsTemplate repository.

Once logged in to GitHub, create a new repository for the CloudFormation template:

1. In your browser, open https://github.com/new.
2. Call the new repository Ansible.
3. Check the checkbox Initialize this repository with a README
4. Finally, click the Create repository button.

 

5. Once your repository is created, ...