Create and destroy Linux VMs in Microsoft Azure

This playbook was created to create and teardown Linux VMs in a specified Azure account.

• Edit the vms.yml file to customize the names and count of VMs you wish to create or destroy
• The default user account for the vms is ansible and this playbook uses vault to store the password for the VMs. Therefore, you will need to modify remove and recreate your own vault.
• role tags are being used for deployments and teardowns respectively.

ansible-playbook site.yml --tags "deploy" --ask-vault-pass -e @vms.yml

• deploy - Create VMs and all required VM resources, i.e. Resource Group, Virtual Network, NIC, IP, Storage Account
• teardown - Destroy VMS and all required VM resources, i.e. Resource Group, Virtual Network, NIC, IP, Storage Account

• username
• vmsize
• resource

encypted

---
  vmname:
     - linuxvm1
     - linuxvm2
     - linuxvm3