Effective DevOps with AWS - Second Edition

Creating our Ansible repository

With Ansible, our first goal is to be able to run commands on remote hosts. In order to do that efficiently, we need to configure our local environment. Because we don't want to have to redo those steps repeatedly, and because, ultimately, we want to source-control everything, we will create a new Git repository. To do that, we will repeat the same steps that we used when we created our EffectiveDevOpsTemplate repository.

Once logged into GitHub, create a new repository for the CloudFormation template as follows:

1. In your browser, open this link: https://github.com/new.
2. Give the new repository the name ansible, as shown here:

3. Check the Initialize this repository with a README checkbox.
4. Finally, click on ...