/ansible-dynamic-ec2inventory

Ansible example to use dynamic inventory to deal with ec2 instances

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ansible-dynamic-ec2inventory

  • Set the credentials as environment variable to pass to the dyanmic inventory (ec2.py) scripts

    export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='AK123'
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='abc123'

  • test the script and connection with valid aws credentials, it will returns the list of ec2 instances grouped in json with tag name which can be used as host in ansible playbook

    python inventories/ec2.py --list

NOTE: If need to get the private IP's of ec2 instances then enable vpc_destination_variable in ec2.in file

vpc_destination_variable = private_ip_address

  • Execute the ansible playbook to run the task on ec2-instance

    ansible-playbook -i inventories/ec2.py playbooks/sample.yml