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Learning DevOps - Second Edition
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Learning DevOps - Second Edition

by Mikael Krief
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
560 pages
10h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3: Using Ansible for Configuring IaaS Infrastructure

In the previous chapter, we talked about provisioning an Azure cloud infrastructure with Terraform. If this infrastructure contains virtual machines (VMs), once they've been provisioned, it is necessary to configure their systems and install all the necessary middleware. This configuration will be necessary for the proper functionality of the applications that will be hosted on the VM.

There are several Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools available for configuring VMs and the most well-known are Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, and PowerShell DSC. Among them, Ansible from Red Hat (https://www.ansible.com/overview/it-automation) stands out for its many assets, as follows:

  • It is declarative ...
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