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Published inSep 2022
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Gineesh Madapparambath
Gineesh Madapparambath
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Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
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Using Ansible as an IaC tool for AWS

In this section, you will create Ansible content to provision and manage AWS resources using Ansible. Let’s assume that whenever you need to create a new EC2 instance, you need to follow multiple manual procedures such as creating a new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), a new security group, network access policies, and many other items. You also need to do post-provisioning steps such as creating new user accounts, installing packages, configuring applications, and more.

With the help of the Ansible AWS collection, it is possible to automate all of these tasks and manage the entire life cycle of the infrastructure.

AWS Free Tier

To practice AWS and Ansible use cases, it is possible to use AWS Free Tier, which provides more than 100 AWS resources free of charge. Visit https://aws.amazon.com/free (Figure 7.25) and sign up for a free AWS Free Tier account to find them:

Figure 7.25 – AWS Free Tier access with...

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Published in: Sep 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803235417

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Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
Read more about Gineesh Madapparambath