OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2 - Second Edition

Coding the playbooks and roles

In this section, we will now create the playbook and roles to generate a comprehensive Cloud Report. Once the playbook is executed, the output and end result will be two reports consisting of the information we learned how to collect in the previous section. These two reports will be saved into a directory determined by you for retrieval. At that point, you can literally send it to leadership and/or peers for review. In the next chapter, we will learn how you can take things further and directly e-mail out the report as an added bonus.

Very similar to the previous chapter, we will break up the multiple tasks into separate roles to keep things organized. We will next review the six roles used to automate creating our ...