An Ansible role that creates EC2 instances, Security groups in AWS cloud environment. Public DNS names of the EC2 instances are updated in the inventory file for further use in other roles/playbook.

This role has the support for delete,stop and start the EC2 instances apart from create.

python package version 2.6 or greater is installed on the ansible machine. boto package installed on the ansible machine. AWS access key environment variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY need to be set. AWS key pair should be created to connect to the instances.

Available Variables are listed below, they can be defined for all the instances in the default/main.yml or individually in the inventory file.

AWS region where the EC2 instance has to be created

 aws_region: ap-south-1

AWS instance type to specify the CPU and memory requirement

 instance_type: t2.micro

AWS image ID to identify the OS and host the machine

 image_id: ami-ac1e68c3

AWS security group the instances will be attached to. if it is not available already, new group will be created with limited access

 security_group_name: "security123"

AWS Key pair to connect to the AWS instance, create it manually.

 sshkeypair_name: my_key

AWS EBS storage disk size to be provisioned in GB

  disk: 10

none

Creating EC2 instances in AWS cloud.

- hosts: instances
  connection: local
  vars:
    operation: createhosts

  roles:
    - SathiyarajPeriyannan.aws

Starting EC2 instances in AWS cloud.

- hosts: instances
  connection: local
  vars:
    operation: starthosts

  roles:
    - SathiyarajPeriyannan.aws

Stoping EC2 instances in AWS cloud.

- hosts: instances
  connection: local
  vars:
    operation: stophosts

  roles:
    - SathiyarajPeriyannan.aws

Deleting EC2 instances in AWS cloud.

- hosts: instances
  connection: local
  vars:
    operation: deletehosts

  roles:
    - SathiyarajPeriyannan.aws

BSD

This role was created in 2018 by Sathiyaraj Periyannan