Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

We can create an EC2 instance using an Ansible module, which will take an instance type, AMI, subnet ID of VPC, tags, the exact count of instances, and region as input. Let's define tasks:

1. To log into the created instance, we need to create an EC2 keypair. There are two ways to create a keypair. One is that we create a keypair on the AWS console and download a private key; the other is to import an existing keypair into AWS. We will import a keypair into EC2:

- name: Create EC2 Key Pair  ec2_key:    name: my_first_key    aws_access_key: "{{ access_key }}"    aws_secret_key: "{{ secret_key }}"    key_material: "{{ key }}"    region: "{{ aws_region }}"    state: present

Every AWS EC2 region maintains its own set of keypairs for instances to ...