Manage AWS Resources Using Ansible: the super short guide to cloud automation

by David Clinton

Wouldn't you love to be able to wave a magic wand to make layers of resources in your AWS account suddenly spring to perfectly-configured life? Wouldn't it be great if you could provision and launch complex infrastructure environments into the cloud with a single click? If you already have experience with AWS, then you know how much of a pain it can be to work through web page after web page in the Amazon Management Console as you manually provision services. And even the AWS CLI - which is a huge step up - can add its own complexity and effort to the mix.
If you already use Ansible for your on-premises operations, plugging it into your AWS account can sometimes be the quickest and most painless way to migrate operations to the cloud. "Manage AWS Resources Using Ansible" is a short book designed to get you up and running with Ansible-powered AWS automation fast.
"Manage AWS Resources Using Ansible" will teach you how to write Ansible playbooks that connect to your AWS account, provision and launch EC2 instances, administrate your AWS infrastructure using Ansible Dynamic Inventory, and build and deploy custom EC2 AMI images using HashiCorp's Packer.
This short book won't cover all the specific problems you'll face, but it will give you all the basics and point you towards the tools that you can use for any project you can dream up.

52 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 28, 2019

About the author

David Clinton is an AWS solutions architect and a Linux system administrator. He is the author of a dozen books and two dozen Pluralsight courses on AWS, Linux, IT security, and server virtualization.