Hi Sreekanth I don't understand - there is a tool called CloudFormer, and you want something in Ansible that does the same thing?
Dick On 24 July 2017 at 22:57, Sreekanth Kannan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Dick > > Thanks for your response. Looks like you are referring to CloudFormation, > but what I was asking is about a tool within CloudFormation which helps you > to generate a template capturing all the resources from your existing > infrastructure in JSON format, it is CloudFormer. > > Later this template can be used to create a CloudFormation stack and spin up > a new environment, kind of a replica but with some tweaking to suit the > target landscape. > > To keep it simple, I just want to know if Ansible has the capability to > capture an existing Dev environment and help us automate the deployment of a > similar QA environment, with some parameter and configuration changes. > > Appreciate your response. > > thanks > Sreekanth > > On Monday, July 24, 2017 at 4:44:05 PM UTC-4, Dick Visser wrote: >> >> There is: >> http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cloudformation_module.html >> >> On 24 July 2017 at 21:17, Sreekanth Kannan <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello >> > >> > I have a need and I am trying to find if there is a module in Ansible >> > that >> > could help me with it. The scenario and the need is: >> > >> > - We have AWS Infrastructure setup and Applications built and >> > running >> > in AWS. >> > - We have three accounts for Dev, QA and PRD. >> > - Now we are required to leverage automation tools to build our QA >> > landscape from what is already built in the Dev landscape. In other >> > words, >> > we need to copy Dev resources to QA and parameterize QA Apps and >> > Configuration. >> > >> > - CloudFormer (a tool in CloudFormation) very nicely generates a >> > template of the existing infrastructure in the Dev landscape, outputs >> > into a >> > JSON template and enables you to build a cloudformation stack to build >> > QA >> > resources. >> > >> > My question is - Is there a parallel module or tool in Ansible that >> > could do >> > a similar job, to build a new environment from an existing one ? >> > >> > Appreciate your responses. >> > >> > thanks >> > Sreekanth >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "Ansible Project" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/014b58e9-3d34-4421-b3b5-502dd9f96a2e%40googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> Dick Visser >> Sr. System & Network Engineer >> GÉANT >> >> Want to join us? We're hiring: https://www.geant.org/jobs > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/70dc6c14-f67d-46d0-98a8-d183f36665ab%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Dick Visser Sr. System & Network Engineer GÉANT Want to join us? We're hiring: https://www.geant.org/jobs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAL8fbwPwOVjXzHhx-%3D4ajjU%3DoHCTVUO%3Dv%3DbNkTs5D%2BoWjzSrTA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
