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Managing AWS Infrastructure with Ansible

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’m going to discuss some concepts behind managing your Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure using Ansible. Before I continue, I’d like to first discuss the “fit” of using Ansible for this particular purpose. Ansible doesn’t store the state of managed systems. With that caveat out of the way, let’s dig in.

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Using Variables in AWS Tags with Terraform

Scott Lowe

If you’re unfamiliar with the idea of Terraform modules, you can liken them to Ansible roles: a re-usable abstraction/function that is heavily parameterized and can be called/invoked as needed. This approach works, creating tags whose keys are “Name” and “role” and whose values are the interpolated variables. (I

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Learn by Doing with Hands-On DevOps Training Courses

Linux Academy

Ansible: Playbooks Deep Dive. Course Description: Learn what a play and playbook are in Ansible. Many key features of Ansible Playbooks are highlighted as you work through the course and a few new modules are introduced along the way. Ansible: Setup, Configure, and Ad Hoc Commands Deep Dive. Splunk Deep Dive.

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Technology Short Take 119

Scott Lowe

tagging everything as “cloud native”). Phoummala Schmitt talks about the importance of tags with cloud resources. Although her article is written specifically for Azure, the underlying concept of being sure to tag resources appropriately is valuable for any cloud provider.

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Using Secure Configurations | Standardize Your Security

Linux Academy

Ansible can help automate the backup, and you can learn more in this month’s how-to video that covers using Ansible to back up a Cisco ASA firewall. These tools provide reporting on changes to the operating system — but come with a price tag. Don’t stop with the backup, though — we still need to monitor for changes.

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Introducing Cloud Playground: Even More Hands-On Training Features

Linux Academy

This means you can use Cloud Playground to practice configuring technologies like Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Kubernetes, and more. Server Deletion Notifications & Tagging. One of our biggest requests was the ability to tag/label a server instead of using a pre-built list of terms. Additional features to expect.

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Technology Short Take 140

Scott Lowe

” Paddy Kelly shows how to filter JSON data in Ansible using json_query. Peter Bourgon speaks out against using build tags for integration tests. Part 3 of the series, found here , describes some of the challenges with desktop Linux and why, in his words, “the grass is not greener on the other side.” Programming.

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