by truthbrother | Jul 29, 2021 | Amazon Web Services, Ansible
A practical way to provision instances on Amazon Web Service EC2 with Ansible. Welcome, this article shows a simple approach to use Ansible for provisioning an AWS EC2 instance. Ansible is a configuration management tool widely used to provision IT environments,...
by truthbrother | Jul 29, 2021 | Amazon Web Services, Ansible
I wanted to create Amazon EC2 Key pair using Ansible tool. I do not want to use AWS CLI. Is it possible to create AWS ec2 key using Ansible? You need to use ec2_key module of Ansible. This module has a dependency on python-boto version 2.5 or above. boto is nothing...
by truthbrother | May 7, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
This is Part 2 of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series. In Part 1, we explained why we picked Terraform as our IAC tool of choice and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation. In this post, we’re going to introduce the basics of how to use...
by truthbrother | Dec 29, 2020 | Terraform by HashiCorp, Amazon Web Services, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, Packer by HashiCorp
If you search the Internet for “infrastructure-as-code”, it’s pretty easy to come up with a list of the most popular tools: ChefPuppetAnsibleSaltStackCloudFormationTerraform What’s not easy is figuring out which one of these you should use. All of these tools can be...
by truthbrother | Dec 24, 2020 | Kubernetes, Ansible
A question I’ve been hearing a lot lately is “why are you still using Ansible in your Kubernetes projects?” Followed often by “what’s the point of writing your book Ansible for Kubernetes when Ansible isn’t really...
