Day-2 Ops for IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure using Ansible

Job ID: 34155926

Budget: $1,500 – $3,000 USD

Contribute to the opensource project https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/community.ansible.ibm.cloud

Goal:
• Develop ansible collection to automate the day-2 operations for the VPC resources (ref: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc) such as – Start/Stop/Restart VSI & Bare metal, Health check, SSH, Backup/recovery, Snapshots, Block Storage, File storage, Autoscale, Encryption, and Key rotation.
• Develop ansible collection to manage composite VPC solutions (in the VPC tutorials), such as – managing a bastion, installing software, setup team-based privacy, manage secure access to an on-prem environment.

Out-of-scope:
• Ansible collection to automation day-1 (or lifecycle) operations on the VPC resources & operations – such as provisioning, configuring, deprovisioning, etc.

Skills required:
Ansible, Python, IBM Cloud SDK for VPC

How to get it done:
Contribute to the open-source GitHub project for IBM Cloud Ansible collection.

Deliverables:
published ansible collection & playbooks in the Ansible Galaxy (https://galaxy.ansible.com/home)