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Ansible Dynamic Inventory

Pre-requisites:

  1. Ansible Server - Get Click here to install on RHEL 8 and click here to install on Amazon Linux

Setup

To get help on dynamic inventory please follow Ansible Official Document

  1. Download ec2.py and ec2.ini files

  2. Create IAM Programmatic access user with EC2 full access on AWS console

    IAM --> users --> Add user

  3. Export IAM user credentials on Ansible server.

    export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='1bc123'
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='abc123'

  4. To export keys permanently make sure that you have installed pip and boto and add credentials ~/.boto file

  5. add executing permissions to ec2.py script

    chmod 755 ec2.py

  6. test the script

    ./ec2.py --list

  7. List out servers which are running on ap-south-1a AZ

    ansible -i ec2.py  ap-south-1a --list-hosts