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V. SestoPractical Ansiblehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8643-2_6

6. Ansible Templates and CloudFormation Scripts

Vincent Sesto1  
(1)
Auckland, New Zealand
 

It’s been pretty cool how 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 ...

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