Provisioning

Setup

Create hosts file with the content:

[local]
localhost

# in case you use virtual environment you will need as well
[local]
localhost ansible_python_interpreter=/PATH_TO/Venv/python

Make a directory mkdir ~/.ansible

Download the inventory script wget -O ~/.ansible/ec2.py https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/ec2.py

Download the configuration for the inventory script wget -O ~/.ansible/ec2.ini https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/ec2.ini

Make executable chmod +x ~/.ansible/ec2.py.

Install aws tools pip awscli, this comes with boto which is a python library to call the AWS library.

Credentials

You can use the cli environment by setting up

Credentials:

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID

Running

Provision the stack ansible-playbook -i hosts -vv provision-ec2-classic.yml - this will connect to AWS and provision servers.