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+title: Creating infrastructure with Ansible
+permalink: /archives/2022/09/03/creating-infrastructure-with-ansible
+tags: ["ansible"]
+---
+
+Let's start at the beginning.
+
+If we want to automate our infrastructure then we first need to create it. This could be done manually or we can automate it.
+
+Popular tools for this include Terraform and Pulumi, but Ansible also includes modules to interface with hosting providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, and Linode.
+
+By using one of these tools, you can programatically provision a new, blank server that is ready for you to be configered.
+
+For example, to [create a DigitalOcean droplet](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/digitalocean/digital_ocean_module.htm):
+
+```yaml
+---
+- community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_droplet:
+    image: ubuntu-20-04-x64
+    name: mydroplet
+    oauth_token: "..."
+    region: sfo3
+    size: s-1vcpu-1gb
+    ssh_keys: [ .... ]
+    state: present
+    wait_timeout: 500
+  register: my_droplet
+```
+
+Running this playbook will create a new Droplet with the specified name, size, and operating system, and within the specified region.
+
+If you needed to create a separate database server or another server for a new environment, then the file can be updated and re-run.
+
+[Creating an Amazon EC2 instance](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/amazon/aws/ec2_instance_module.html#ansible-collections-amazon-aws-ec2-instance-module) looks very similar:
+
+```yaml
+---
+- amazon.aws.ec2_instance:
+    image_id: ami-123456
+    instance_type: c5.large
+    key_name: "prod-ssh-key"
+    name: "public-compute-instance"
+    network:
+      assign_public_ip: true
+    security_group: default
+    vpc_subnet_id: subnet-5ca1ab1e
+```
+
+This doesn't apply just to servers - you can also use Ansible to create security groups and S3 buckets, manage SSH keys, firewalls, and load balancers.
+
+Once we have our infrastructure in place, we can start using Ansible to set and manage its configuration, which we'll do in tomorrow's email.