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Skill · Cloud · Industrialize the cloud as code: Terraform, Packer, Ansible

Configure a cloud fleet with Ansible through a dynamic inventory, idempotently

Configure a cloud fleet with Ansible without a hand-kept list: a dynamic inventory queried from the provider's API, and idempotent playbooks.

Start lesson 1The Cloud domain

• 1 lesson
• ~35 min of reading
• 1 quiz
• 0 proof lab

The path

Where it comes from, where it leads

What you need to know first, where you stand on this skill, and what it opens next. Your status is computed in your browser, from what you have read and passed.

Before · 1 prerequisite

• Write a readable, idempotent Ansible playbook

Depending on the chosen tool, you also need:

• Scaleway (default)

  • Size, create and destroy cloud instances, GPUs included

• Outscale

  • Provision a cloud infrastructure in Terraform, with state on the provider's object storage

Recommended before · 2

• Access a machine over SSH
• Troubleshoot a TLS error and produce a certificate

This skill, for you

Configure a cloud fleet with Ansible through a dynamic inventory, idempotently

Computing

It unlocks · 1 skill

• Make a service highly available across Outscale subregions: LBU and DNS, or HAProxy and a floating EIP

Lessons

How to learn it

This skill is learned with the tool of your choice; your preferences decide the path followed in your journey. Each path lists its lessons in program order.

With Outscale

3 lessons · ~3 h 00

Part 1 · Volet 3, références Infrastructure as Code (in French) 1 lesson · ~1 h 00

1. 1Inventaire dynamique Ansible (osc_vm) (in French)· 60 min

Part 2 · Volet 6, projet fil rouge 3-tiers (in French) 2 lessons · ~2 h 00

1. 2Chapitre 3, Bastion SSH durci (in French)· 60 min
2. 3Chapitre 4, Frontends Nginx HTTPS (in French)· 60 min

With Scaleway

1 lesson · ~35 min default

1. 1Ansible : exploiter ce que Terraform a provisionné (in French)· 35 min

Beyond the lessons

Assess, practise, pass the proof

Reading a lesson confirms nothing. A skill is confirmed by a passed quiz, practised in a guided lab, and put to the test by a challenge or a mission; an imported lab result is not verified by the site.

Assess yourself

1 quiz

At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, it confirms the skill.

Practice

No guided lab

No guided lab practices it yet.

Proof

No proof

Neither a challenge nor a mission with a proof yet.

Around it

Who requires it, who teaches it

Required by

• Cloud Engineer

Taught by

• Outscale (in French)
• Scaleway (in French)

Tool of your choice: Outscale or Scaleway.

Same block · Industrialize the cloud as code: Terraform, Packer, Ansible

• Provision a cloud infrastructure in Terraform, with state on the provider's object storage
• Build a hardened machine image with Packer and clean up its build leftovers

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