Note: This is a core Ansible Playbook, please review, customize per you needs, and test it first before applying on production environments! Please report any issues through GitHub or email me at [email protected] and I'll do my best to get back to you!

Recorded Terminal Session: http://cwoaws.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/session4.html

CWOAWS CORE Ansible playbook have a purpose to setup operational AWS VPC infrastructure, all services on EC2 instances, RDS, etc, and to allow later execution of separated Playbooks for deployments, etc.

CWOAWS CORE Ansible Playbook Tasks:

• create 1 x VPC with 2 x VPC subnets in differrent AZ zones one AWS region,
• create 1 x security group,
• provision 2 x EC2 instances in 2 different AZ,
• Install webservers role on both instances (includes of other roles is possible, webservers role is required to allow instances registration to ELB),
• launch and configure public facing VPC ELB (cross_az_load_balancing) and attach VPC subnets,
• deregister and register EC2 instances on ELB,
• info about ELB dnsname is registered in vars file and later can be used for DNS configuration,

All information about VPC are defined in main.yml and vpc_info.yml(during playbook execution) files (AZ, regions, keypair, vpc, subnets, elb dns name info) .

Ansible and Boto installation Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

• $ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
• $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
• $ sudo apt-get update
• $ sudo apt-get install ansible
• $ sudo apt-get install python-pip
• $ sudo pip install boto

Download to folder /etc/ansible/

• $ wget https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/ec2.py
• $ wget https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/ec2.ini
• $ chmod +x /etc/ansible/ec2.py

In aws console create IAM user with PowerUser privileges; Add in file /home/ubuntu/.boto

• [Credentials]
• aws_access_key_id = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
• aws_secret_access_key = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Add in clean file /home/ubuntu/.ansible.cfg

• [defaults]
• host_key_checking = False
• private_key_file=/home/ubuntu/keypair.pem

Run Playbook:

• $ansible-playbook -i hosts deploy-aws-infra.yml