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Simple Ansible playbook to create ELB and EC2 instances on AWS for a blog
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aws-blog.yml
---
- name: A simple Load Balanced AWS blog using the Amazon standard linux AMI
hosts: localhost
connection: local
gather_facts: False
tasks:
- name: spin up the webserver instances
ec2:
key_name: my-aws-key
group: web
instance_type: t2.micro
image: ami-f0091d91
region: us-west-2
wait: yes
instance_tags:
group: webservers
exact_count: 2
count_tag:
group: webservers
register: awsblog-webservers
- name: wait for the servers to appear on the network
wait_for: host={{ item.public_dns_name }} port=22 delay=10 timeout=180 state=started
with_items: awsblog-webservers.tagged_instances
- name: add server ip addresses to hosts group
add_host: hostname={{ item.public_ip }} groupname=launched
with_items: awsblog-webservers.tagged_instances
- name: configure the webservers (simple little job just installs nginx and a hello world page)
hosts: launched
remote_user: ec2-user
sudo: True
gather_facts: True
roles:
- web
- name: spin up the load balancer and add the servers to it
hosts: 127.0.0.1
connection: local
gather_facts: False
tasks:
- name: setup a simple load balancer
ec2_elb_lb:
name: aws-blog-elb
state: present
region: us-west-2
zones:
- us-west-2a
listeners:
- protocol: http
load_balancer_port: 80
instance_port: 80
register: awsblog-elb
- name: add the webservers to the load balancer
local_action: ec2_elb
args:
instance_id: "{{ item.id }}"
ec2_elbs: aws-blog-elb
state: present
region: us-west-2
with_items: awsblog-webservers.tagged_instances
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