To get the most out of this book

This book assumes that readers are already familiar with the basics of Ansible and the cloud provider they are going to work on. The book helps the readers to write infrastructure as code and automation. Readers will need a way to authenticate and authorize themselves to the desired cloud providers. Usually, that requires creating an account with said cloud provider. Although care has been taken to use trial and free-tier cloud providers wherever possible, certain recipes might cost users a small amount of money. Please be aware of the financial implications of that.

From a hardware point of view, any modern computer running 64-bit Linux flavor will be able to run the recipes. We have run these recipes from a single core 1 GB RAM compute instance.