How do I provision CloudFormation in Azure with Ansible?

Provisioning resources in Azure using Ansible can be a streamlined process by leveraging Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, which are conceptually similar to AWS CloudFormation. In this guide, we'll cover how to use Ansible to provision Microsoft Azure resources effectively.

Step-by-Step Guide

Here’s an example of how to provision an Azure resource group and a virtual machine using Ansible:

- name: Create Resource Group azure_rm_resourcegroup: name: myResourceGroup location: eastus - name: Create Virtual Machine azure_rm_virtualmachine: name: myVM resource_group: myResourceGroup vm_size: Standard_DS1_v2 admin_username: azureuser admin_password: Password123! image: offer: Ubuntu publisher: Canonical sku: 18.04-LTS version: latest network_interfaces: - name: myNic

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