The Ansible Amazon AWS collection includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of AWS instances. This collection is maintained by the Ansible cloud team.
Click the Content
button to see the list of content included in this collection.
You can install the AWS collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:
ansible-galaxy collection install amazon.aws
You can also include it in a requirements.yml
file and install it with ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml
, using the format:
---
collections:
- name: amazon.aws
version: 0.1.1
You can either call modules by their Fully Qualified Collection Namespace (FQCN), such as amazon.aws.ec2_instance
, or you can call modules by their short name if you list the amazon.aws
collection in the playbook's collections
keyword:
---
- name: Setup an instance for testing
amazon.aws.ec2_instance:
name: '{{ resource_prefix }}'
instance_type: t2.nano
image_id: "{{ (amis.images | sort(attribute='creation_date') | last).image_id }}"
wait: yes
volumes:
- device_name: /dev/xvda
ebs:
volume_size: 8
delete_on_termination: true
register: instance
- Amazon Web Services Guide
- Ansible Using collections for more details.
We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, please open an issue or create a PR against the Amazon AWS collection repository.
You can also join us on:
- Freenode IRC -
#ansible-aws
Freenode channel
See the Ansible Community Guide for details on contributing to Ansible.
- Ansible Collection overview
- Ansible User guide
- Ansible Developer guide
- Ansible Community code of conduct
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See LICENSE to see the full text.