generally speaking - ansible is not used for clouds. Especially if ur leveraging things like spot instances, etc. Because ansible needs a trigger to start conf

generally speaking - ansible is not used for clouds. Especially if ur leveraging things like spot instances, etc. Because ansible needs a trigger to start configuring the server. The most general practice now is to use cloud-init (https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) For example, this is how u set it up on AWS - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-data.html#user-data-cloud-init https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-dat... i think cloud-init is packaged by default on all providers OS images.