alexmzirai / ansible_gcloud

Automate Instance and Apache Server on GCP using Ansible

Description

The goal of this repository is to create a instance on GCP and deploy apache server on that instance using ansible playbook.

Prerequisites

1. Create Project on Google Cloud Platform.
2. Create a Serviceaccount with editor access. (Refer Creating-service-account)

Getting Started !!

1. Install python version > 3.0

$ sudo yum install python3-pip

2. The GCP modules require both the requests and the google-auth libraries to be installed.

$ sudo pip3 install requests google-auth

3. Install Ansible

$ sudo pip3 install ansible 

4. Download .JSON credentials file of created service account.
5. Edit instance_name in vars/main.yml, by default it is centos-7.
6. Edit machine_type in vars/main.yml, by default it is e2-micro.
7. Edit zone in vars/main.yml, by default it is us-central1-a.
8. Edit source_image in vars/main.yml, by default it is CENTOS-7.
9. Give project id, .JSON file_path in vars/main.yml file.
10. Run the Playbook

$ ansible-playbook gce.yml

8. Your Google Compute Engine Instance is now created, with Apache Server installed in it.
9. Browse to instance public ip address.