dynamic_inventory

Ansible Role: aws_ec2_dynamic_inventory

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A simple Ansible role for getting the AWS ec2 instances IP's dynamically using tags.

It will install the following:-

ansible boto boto3

Role Name

A brief description of the role goes here. This role is used for them having the AWS account wether it is the free-tier account or the educate account and get the ec2 instance's ips having in that AWS account.

Requirements

Pre-requisite for using this role is you must have yum configured if you are using Rhel OS or if any other OS installing tool should be available.

Attention

As when we create any insytance we give tags. So both the python script will Create inventory groups using tags modify as you use them in your environment.

For getting the group of tags so to your /etc/ansible/host directory use this command:- "python3 ec2.py" Now you can see all your instance ip's with their following tags.

You can also use these tags. In my case I used it as follows in ec2_instances_facts.yml.

hosts: tag_Name_Production
 
hosts: key_mykey

Role Variables

A description for role variables goes here.

Variable	File	Comments

`aws_region:`	vars/main.yml	Inform AWS Region

`aws_access_key`	vars/credentials.yml	Inform AWS Access Key

`aws_secret_key`	vars/credentials.yml	Inform AWS Secret Key

`aws_security_token`	vars/credentials.yml	Inform AWS Security Token(if having)

`path_to_your_inventory_dir`	vars/main.yml	Inform inventory directory name

`path_to_your_ansible_cfg_file`	vars/main.yml	Inform of the ansible config file

Dependencies

A list of other roles hosted on Galaxy should go here, plus any details in regards to parameters that may need to be set for other roles, or variables that are used from other roles.