GCP Automation using Ansible

Introduction

Ansible provides different Google Cloud Platform modules for automating google cloud platform. In this blog we will be creating a Google Compute Engine Instance and deploy Apache Server on it using Ansible.

Prerequisites

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

GitHub

You can find the resources in abhivaidya07/ansible_gcloud

Getting Started !!

• Install python version > 3.0

$ sudo yum install python3-pip

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

$ sudo pip3 install requests google-auth

• Install Ansible

$ sudo pip3 install ansible 

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

$ ansible-playbook gce.yml

• Your Google Compute Engine Instance is now created, with Apache Server installed in it.
• Browse to instance public ip address, and you will see HELLO WORLD !! is getting displayed.