Learn Ansible

Running the playbook

The first thing we need to do is update our production inventory file; this should look like the following:

# Register all of the host groups we will be creating in the playbooks[ec2_instance][already_running]# Put all the groups into into a single group so we can easily apply one config to it for overriding things like the ssh user and key location[aws:children]ec2_instancealready_running# Finally, configure some bits to allow us access to the instances before we deploy our credentials using Ansible[aws:vars]ansible_ssh_user=centosansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/id_rsahost_key_checking=False

As you can see, we are defining the host groups and also configuring Ansible to use the centos user, which is the default for ...