Chapter 11. Orchestrating cloud resources

 

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

 
 --John Lubbock

In this chapter you'll learn how to use the puppetlabs/aws module to create and manage Amazon AWS cloud instances, and associated resources such as subnets, security groups, and VPCs. You'll also learn how to build your entire cloud infrastructure directly from Hiera data.

Orchestrating cloud resources

Introducing the cloud

Before exploring the advantages of cloud computing, perhaps we should define what it is. In the pre-cloud ...

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