Project: Automating AWS with Ansible - Hello, Ansible!

Project: Automating AWS with Ansible – Hello, Ansible!

Summary
AWS with Ansible through the “Hello, Ansible!” project. This hands-on guide will tell you installing Ansible in AWS EC2 instance and execute a “Hello, Ansible!” project. From this we will learn installing Ansible in AWS instance, file generation, and personalized message display.

Objectives

• Launching AWS EC2 Instance & EC2 Instance Connect
• Installing Ansible on AWS EC2 Instance
• Creating Ansible Playbook
• Executing Ansible Playbook

Steps

Step:1 Launching AWS EC2 Instances & EC2 Instance Connect
1.1 EC2 Instance Launch:
Start an AWS EC2 Instance and configure all the settings as shown below.

1.2 AWS EC2 Instance Connect:
Connect your EC2 Instance using EC2 Instance Connect

Step:2 Installing Ansible on AWS EC2 Instance
2.1 Installing Ansible:
After connecting to your EC2 Instance via EC2 Instance Connect, follow the below commands.

To Update system packages command:

sudo yum update -y

Command for installing Ansible:

sudo amazon-linux-extars install ansible2 -y

Command for verifying Ansible installation:

ansible --version

Step:3 Creating Ansible Playbook
3.1 Creating Directory

mkdir hello_ansible
cd hello_ansible

Create an Ansible Playbook “hello_ansible.yml”

3.2 Running the playbook

ansible-playbook hello_ansible.yml

Step:4 Executing Ansible Playbook
We will see the “Hello, Ansible!” message by the following the command below

cat/tmp/hello_ansible/Hello.txt