Creating an Azure Virtual Network with Ansible Playbook

Learn how to use Ansible’s Azure modules to automate the creation of a virtual network with subnets and a public IP address in Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Creating an Azure Virtual Network with Ansible Playbook

As organizations continue to adopt cloud technologies, the need for automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management becomes more important than ever. Ansible, a popular open-source automation tool, has several modules for working with Microsoft Azure Cloud. In this article, we will explore how to use Ansible’s Azure modules to automate the creation of a virtual network with subnets and a public IP address in Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Prerequisites

To follow along with this tutorial, you will need the following:

• An Azure account with the necessary permissions to create virtual networks and subnets.
• Ansible is installed on your local machine or server.
• Azure modules for Ansible installed.

ansible-galaxy collection install azure.azcollection

Creating an Azure Virtual Network with Ansible

Let’s start by creating an Ansible playbook to create a virtual network with subnets and a public IP address in Azure.