Ansible Role - Fedora EC2 instance

Provisions Fedora 27 on AWS EC2. It ensures that:

• Fedora 27 AWS EC2 node is provisioned and started
• public SSH key is uploaded and assigned to provisioned EC2 node
• EC2 security group firewall has been configured to accept only SSH traffic
• OpenSSH server is up and running
• Ansible-friendly version of Python is installed on provisioned instance

Compatibility

This playbook has been tested against Fedora 27.

Requirements

Keep in mind that Ansible EC2 module requires you to have Boto installed:

sudo pip install -U boto

You can specify AWS credentials either in Boto file (for example ~/.boto) or using environment variables:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='yourKeyId' AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='yourSecretKey' ansible-playbook aws.yml

Installation

ansible-galaxy install hekonsek.fedora-ec2,0.11

Role variables

• instance_region - AWS region to use. Default region is us-east-1 i.e. the cheapest one.
• instance_name - name tag for created instance. Default value is defaultServer.
• instance_type - instance type. Default value is t2.medium.
• instance_ssd - indicates if SSD disk should be used. Default value is true.
• keyName - name that should be assigned to the uploaded SSH public key. Default value is defaultKey.
• group - name of the security group to create and use. Default value is default.
• volume_size - volume size in GB. Default value is 8.
• volume_device_name - name of the volume device. Default value is /dev/sda1.

Example playbook

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: false
  roles:
    - { role: hekonsek.fedora-ec2,0.11 }

License

Apache 2.0