Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

We can create a VPC by using an ec2_vpc_net module. This module will take a name, the regions, and a CIDR block as the argument along with our credentials.

1. Let us define the task:

- name: Create AWS VPC  ec2_vpc_net:    name: "{{ vpc_name }}"    cidr_block: "{{ vpc_cidr_block }}"    region: "{{ aws_region }}"    aws_access_key: "{{ access_key }}"    aws_secret_key: "{{ secret_key }}"    state: present  register: my_first_vpc

Note that we have registered the output of the task in a variable called my_first_vpc. We will use values from this variable in the subsequent tasks. We have used quite a few variables as well. Using variables appropriately makes it easier to reuse the roles and playbooks at a later point. Other than access_key and secret_key ...