Deployment validation
Ansible offers a variety of modules to gather the operational state of resources deployed in Azure, providing a programmatic method to validate the current status of network components. This eliminates the need to log into the Azure portal manually to check the status of different infrastructure components. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to use several of these modules to validate the resource groups and virtual networks deployed in Azure.
Additionally, we will cover an alternative authentication method to connect to Azure. Instead of specifying authentication parameters (such as tenant_id, client_id, etc.) directly in the Ansible playbook, we will store these details in the ~/.azure/credentials file. With this approach, Ansible modules can automatically authenticate to the Azure API without needing explicit credentials in each task.
To validate the deployment, Ansible provides fact-gathering modules, such as azure_rm_resourcegroup_info and azure_rm_virtualnetwork_info...
