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Practical Ansible: Configuration Management from Start to Finish

Name: Practical Ansible: Configuration Management from Start to Finish
Author: Vincent Sesto
ISBN: 9781484264850

by Vincent Sesto

December 2020

Intermediate to advanced

276 pages

4h 7m

English

Apress

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V. SestoPractical Ansiblehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6485-0_6

6. Ansible Templates and CloudFormation Scripts

Vincent Sesto¹

(1)

Auckland, New Zealand

It’s been pretty cool how so far we’ve been able to automate our instance deployments all while using code. But we haven’t finished yet; there is still more we can do with Ansible, especially when using Amazon Web Services. We could almost dedicate an entire book to using Ansible with AWS, so this is why we haven’t stopped with just the previous chapter.

In this chapter, we are going to continue with our new project and take it further with built-in apps, preconfigured users, and configurations when the instance is deployed. In this chapter, we are going to cover these: ...

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