What is AWS EC2 ?
EC2 also known as Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), which is an AWS web service that allows user to rent virtual server on an AWS cloud platform . These virtual servers are called EC2 Instances . There are different types of EC2 instances which users can select on their requirement. For example if an user is doing any high computation task , they can choose t2.large or any higher EC2 instance type or if they are doing any low computation task they can choose t2.micro or t2.medium. EC2 service also provides variety of operating system images such as Ubuntu, CentOS , Amazon Linux, Windows and many more. EC2 instances can also be scaled up or down on the basis of traffic it receives by using a load balancer. In summary we can say EC2 provides flexible, scalable and cost effective solutions to organizations to run their application on AWS cloud platform .
How to install Ansible in AWS EC2 Server ?
Ansible is an automation tool which helps in managing the configuration over multiple machines . On the other hand AWS EC2 is a web service which allows users to rent any required virtual server . Here in this guide, we will first discuss what is Ansible. Then we will discuss AWS EC2 Service. After this, we will walk you through the different steps to install and configure Ansible on an AWS EC2 server.