Chapter 12. Amazon EC2
Ansible has a number of features that make working with infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds much easier. This chapter focuses on Amazon EC2 because it’s the most popular IaaS cloud and the one I know best. However, many of the concepts should transfer to other clouds supported by Ansible.
The two ways Ansible supports EC2 are:
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A dynamic inventory plug-in for automatically populating your Ansible inventory instead of manually specifying your servers
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Modules that perform actions on EC2 such as creating new servers
In this chapter, we’ll discuss both the EC2 dynamic inventory plug-in, as well as the EC2 modules.
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