Ansible tutorial - Managing Cleura Cloud resources with Ansible

Managing Cleura Cloud resources with Ansible is a free tutorial available on Cleura Cloud Academy.

Ansible Tutorial Description

You are about to learn the basics of Ansible by manipulating key pairs, networks, and servers in Cleura Cloud.

Prerequisites

All you need to go through this tutorial is internet access, a terminal application and a Cleura Cloud account.

Our Ansible tutorial covers a specific use case in Cleura Cloud. Access to the tutorial is free of charge, however we do not provide virtual lab environments. Instead, you follow along using your pre-existing Cleura Public Cloud account and any cloud resources that you create will be charged at our normal rates. If you are new to Cleura, you can utilize our free trial credit to run the tutorial.

Tutorial objectives

Upon completing this tutorial on managing Cleura Cloud resources using Ansible, you will:

• • be able to use Ansible for creating or destroying key pairs, networks, and servers in Cleura Cloud
  • understand the basics of playbooks, plays, and tasks
  • know how to install software and manipulate services in remote servers, using Ansible.

Our Ansible Tutorial staff

Christos Varelas

Christos has multi-year experience in technical writing for tech and popular science magazines in Greece. He has also been the publisher of deltaHacker, a Greek monthly periodical on all things ethical hacking. After deltaHacker ran its course, he switched careers and delved into the world of Quality Assurance for software maintenance. Even though that adventure kept him busy much longer than he expected, his fondness for technical writing prevailed. Now, he is a proud (and happy) member of the documentation team at Cleura.

Free resources similar to our Ansible tutorial

We offer a number of free tutorials on various, specific use cases. See our Ansible Dynamic Inventory tutorial, Containerized workloads tutorial, Terraform tutorial, OpenStack Heat tutorial.