AWS Automation Cookbook

Deploying a web server using Ansible

You can perform this example either on your local machine or a server. I would recommend to perform this operation on a server, that will take you through all the things required to set up. First launch an EC2 machine in a public subnet and make sure you open the SSH port from wherever you will be running your Ansible playbook.

1. Create a file in your server from where you will initiate the playbook:

    # vi playbook.yaml     ---    - hosts: servers      sudo: yes    # You should give your remote server user name      remote_user: ec2-user      tasks:           - name: Updating System             yum: name=* state=latest          - name: Install EPEL-repo             yum: name=epel-release state=latest          - name: Install nginx             yum: name=nginx state=latest - name: start the ...