Practical Ansible 2

Creating your first machine

Creating a machine in Rackspace Cloud is very simple since it's a single-step operation:

1. Create the rax.yaml Playbook with the following content:

---- hosts: localhost  tasks:    - name: Ensure the my_machine exists      rax:        name: my_machine        flavor: 4        image: centos-8        count: 1        group: my_group        wait: True

2. Now, you can execute it with the following command:

$ ansible-playbook rax.yaml

3. This should result in something like the following:

PLAY [localhost] **********************************************************************************TASK [Gathering Facts] ****************************************************************************ok: [localhost]TASK [Ensure the my_machine exists] *************************************************************** ...