Effective DevOps with AWS

Creating a CodeDeploy Ansible role

We are first going to go into the role directory that is present at the root location of our ansible repository:

$ cd roles  

As before, we will rely on ansible-galaxy to put in place the scaffolding needed to create our role:

$ ansible-galaxy init codedeploy  

Our role will be very simple; we are going to edit the file codedeploy/tasks/main.yml and make a call to the new module that the aws_codedeploy library brings as follows:

---
# tasks file for codedeploy
- name: Installs and starts the AWS CodeDeploy Agent
  aws_codedeploy: 
    enabled: yes  

At this point, we can create our new playbook for generic nodejs web servers.

We are going to go back in the root directory of the ansible repository:

$ cd ..  

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