Chapter 4: Managing Cluster Configuration with Ansible

In Chapter 3, Provisioning Kubernetes Clusters Using AWS and Terraform, you learned how to create a Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform and AWS, and you also learned how to develop infrastructure as code and provisioned your first production-like cluster.

This was just the first step towards building operational and production-ready Kubernetes clusters. By now, you should have an up-and-running cluster with Terraform infrastructure modules to provision other similar clusters.

These clusters are still plain; they're not configured or optimized to run production workloads. To make these clusters fully operational, we simply need to deploy and configure the required Kubernetes services ...

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