/ansible_aws_s3

AWS Cloud Storage Provisioning

This project is created for provisioning cloud storage buckets in multiple environments using Ansible.

Prerequisites and Environment Setup

  • Valid AWS IAM User account with Access Key and Secret Key

  • Have the following installed on your machine

    Python
pip

  • Install Ansible, AWS CLI and AWS SDKs
    pip install ansible awscli boto boto3

  • Check AWS CLI and Ansible is installed correctly
    aws --version
    ansible --version

  • Configure the AWS CLI profile as shown below:
    aws configure

    AWS Access Key ID [None]: <AWS_ACCESS_KEY>

AWS Secret Access Key [None]: <AWS_SECRET_KEY>

Default region name [None]: <AWS_REGION>

Default output format [None]: json

  • Set Environment variables

    export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<AWS_ACCESS_KEY>
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<AWS_SECRET_KEY>
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=<AWS_REGION>

  • Change/Navigate to the Cloud Provisioning Directory

Creating AWS S3 Buckets

To create new buckets use create_s3_buckets.yml playbook with variables.
Substitute the desired bucket name for bucketNameValue.
Choose the environment from hosts file and pass in the desired environment variable.
Verify the bucket is created.

AWS_ACCESS_KEY=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_KEY=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY AWS_EC2_REGION=$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION ansible-playbook -i hosts -l local create_s3_buckets.yml -e bucket_name="bucketNameValue" -vvv

aws s3 ls

Deleting S3 Buckets

To delete buckets use delete_s3_buckets.yml playbook with variables.
Substitute the desired bucket name for bucketNameValue.
Choose the environment from hosts file and pass in the desired environment variable.
Verify the bucket is deleted.

AWS_ACCESS_KEY=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_KEY=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY AWS_EC2_REGION=$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION ansible-playbook -i hosts -l local delete_s3_buckets.yml -e bucket_name="bucketNameValue" -vvv

aws s3 ls