automation

The objective of the repo is to record my learning progress in automation on Azure with Terraform and Ansible. Project 2 is a more integrated and complete project. Feel free to play around with it~

Terraform

Initialize Terraform to download plug-ins as required

terraform init

Validate the configuration to ensure there are no errors or typos in the file

terraform validate

Perform a dry run

terraform plan

Deploy the infrastructure and monitor progress

terraform apply

Check the outputs defined in outputs.tf

terraform outputs

Destroy all the resources

terraform destroy

Verify deletion

terraform state list
terraform show

Configure Azure blob container to store Terraform state information for security and team collaboration. First, define backend.tf. Then, follow the standard way to apply all .tf.

az group create -l canadacentral -n tfstate<ID>RG
az storage account create -l canadacentral -n tfstate<ID>sa -g tfstate<ID>RG --sku Standard_LRS
az storage account keys list -g tfstate<ID>RG -n tfstate<ID>sa
az storage container create -n tfstatefiles --account-name tfstate<ID>sa --account-key “<access-key-from-previous-step>”
export ARM_ACCESS_KEY=<access-key-from-previous-step>

Format

terraform fmt -recursive

Checking for available images

az vm image list >> images
az vm image list --offer CentOS --all

Install Ansible on Mac

brew install ansible
ansible --version
source /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/7.3.0/libexec/bin/activate
pip install <<packages>>

Other useful commands

ansible-inventory --graph 

ansible --list-hosts <<group>>

Ad-hoc Command

ansible <host> -m <module> -a <arguments>

Common playbook commands

ansible-playbook -C playbook.yml
ansible-playbook playbook.yml --syntax-check
ansible-playbook playbook.yml
ansible-playbook --list-tasks playbook.yml
ansible-playbook --list-hosts playbook.yml
ansible-doc module_name

Windows- config to run remote command via http

winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'