One of the key aspects of the technical account management (TAM) service is to share knowledge in order to ease the learning curve of cloud technologies for SysAdmins, in their transition to DevOps role. The best way to pave the path to DevOps, I believe, is to execute day-to-day SysAdmin management tasks using cutting-edge automation tools.

Through a practical example, we will show how to automate creation of one of the most basic web services, with three instances of Apache as a backend and a load balancer as frontend. All this will be created directly on the Google Cloud Platform.

Prerequisites

In addition to having Ansible installed in the control node, it is essential to follow the steps described in the Google Cloud Platform Guide.