Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

Let's start by creating an ELB. We will need to add the ELB to a security group. We also need to provide the region and subnet in which we want to create the ELB. We will make this ELB serve HTTP requests on port 80 and route the requests to port 80 of the instance:

- name: Create ELB in public subnet  ec2_elb_lb:    state: present    name: "{{ elb_name }}"    security_group_ids: "{{ my_first_sg.group_id }}"    region: "{{ aws_region }}"    subnets: "{{ my_public_subnet.subnet.id }}"    aws_access_key: "{{ access_key }}"    aws_secret_key: "{{ secret_key }}"    purge_subnets: yes    listeners:    - protocol: http      load_balancer_port: 80      instance_port: 80  register: my_first_elb  tags:    - elb    - recipe8

Once our ELB is set up, we need to identify the instances ...