How To Create EC2 Instances Using Ansible

Now open a terminal and create a file with the extension .yml or .ymal, add below script and save it

# Basic provisioning example
- name: Ansible test
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: launching AWS instance using Ansible
ec2:
key_name: aws_instance_Ansible
instance_type: t2.micro
image: ami-0dacb0c129b49f529
region: us-east-2
wait: yes
group: Ansible
count: 1
vpc_subnet_id: default
assign_public_ip: yes
aws_access_key: ***********xxxxxxxx
Aws_secret_key: ***********xxxxxxxx

Hosts: add [webserver] localhost in /etc/Ansible/hosts file as my internet is running on the local server. If the file does not exist create one at the same location then add.

Image: Go to EC2 dashboard -> Launch instance -> ami id (Image id)

Vpc_subnet_id: I made it default as I don’t any VPC configuration.

Add your aws_access_key and aws_secret_key which you got from IAM user creation. The rest are the basic details. If you want more details you can visit the Ansible official website.

Now our Ansible file is ready.

Run below command to check whether Ansible is ready to launch EC2 or not.

Ansible-playbook -C filename.yml

Where -C will check if everything is ready or not.

Once everything looks good, run below command and within a minute your EC2 server will be launched.

Ansible-playbook filename.yml

Now if you go to Amazon console you will see the server is launched successfully.

So, we are done with creating a basic EC2 server using Ansible. I hope this will help you to use Ansible in your upcoming projects.If you have any questions about how ansible create aws instance ask in the comment section.