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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Kevin Jackson, Cody Bunch, Egle Sigler, James Denton
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
7h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Ansible to launch instances

Launching an instance using Ansible is a convenient, platform agnostic method. While we have to specify how to do this for OpenStack, as a particular task, an Ansible playbook could be extended to allow a user to use the same Ansible command to launch an instance on any cloud. This recipe is a very basic introduction to the use of Ansible with OpenStack.

Getting ready

Ensure that you are logged on to a correctly configured OpenStack client and can access the OpenStack environment that has Ansible installed.

How to do it...

Ansible executes tasks in what is known as a playbook. In this example, we will create a simple task that launches a specific instance called cookbook1:

  1. The first step is to create the Ansible playbook ...
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ISBN: 9781788398763