Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

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1. We can create an AMI of an existing EC2 Instance using an ec2_ami module. In this task we will be creating an AMI from the existing instance which, we created in one of the previous tasks. This task will require the instance id, the option to reboot the instance while creating the image, the name, and the tags for the image to be created as input parameters:

- name: Create AMI of Public Instance Created  ec2_ami:    aws_access_key: "{{ access_key }}"    aws_secret_key: "{{ secret_key }}"    region: "{{ aws_region }}"    instance_id: "{{ item }}"    wait: yes    name: first_ami    no_reboot: yes    tags:      Name: First AMI  with_items:    - "{{ ec2_public_instance.instance_ids }}"  register: image

2. While creating an AMI for running an EC2 instance, we can ...