An example Ansible playbook for creating a security group and a specified number of instances on AWS.

This playbook uses the ec2 and ec2_group Ansible modules. To learn more about configuration options with these modules:

• ec2: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/ec2_module.html
• ec2_group:http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/ec2_group_module.html

Before running the playbook, you need to to make changes to a few of the configuration files.

Edit ansible.cfg to specify the location of your AWS private key file.

Edit group_vars/all to set the following values:

• aws_access_key: specify AWS Access Key
• aws_secret_key: specify AWS Secret Key
• key_name: specify private key name alias
• aws_region: specify aws region
• vpc_id: specify vpc id
• cidr_ip: specify cidr_ip
• instance_type: specify intance_type

Edit inventory/hosts to specify a custom Python path, such as Anaconda.

To run the playbook, you only need to use a single command

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts playbooks/aws-demo.yml