Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

To create an EBS volume, we can use an ec2_vol module. This will take the device name, the instance ID, the volume size, and the tag name as input parameters:

- name: Create EBS volume and attach to Instance  ec2_vol:    aws_access_key: "{{ access_key }}"    aws_secret_key: "{{ secret_key }}"    region: "{{ aws_region }}"    instance: "{{ item }}"    volume_size: 10    name: Public Instance 1    device_name: /dev/xvdf  with_items: "{{ ec2_public_instance.instance_ids }}"  register: ec2_vol

This task will create an EBS volume with the tag name as Public Instance 1 and size 10 GB. Once the EBS volume is ready, it will be attached to the EC2 instance we provided with the device name /dev/xvdf.

We should note here that in this task, name and device_name ...