How to create Ec2 instance using Ansible Tower /AWX

Step i: Install amazon.aws collection, Boto

connect to your awx server using mobaxterm and enter

pip3 install boto3

 ansible-galaxy collection install amazon.aws

Step ii: Specify your collection path in the ansible config file

vi /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

Insert the below line

collections_paths = /home/ubuntu/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections

Save

Step ii. Go to your AWS account...

Click on  IAM

Go to Users

Click Add Users

Create a New User , u can call it Tower

Attach Existing  Policy

Give it AdministratorAccess and create user

Download ur keys

Step A: Create a New branch myfirstrepo Repository in bitbucket

 Name the branch : Ansible

Step B: Open git bash in your project folder and do a git pull to get the latest branch update

cd myfirstrepo

git pull
git checkout Ansible

This will switch to the newly created Ansible branch

Launch Vscode by entering code .

Step C: Playbook to create EC2 instance

Create a new file in Vscode called aws.yml

Paste the below code in the file:

--- - hosts: "{{ host }}" gather_facts: true vars: access_key: YOUR ACCESS KEY secret_key: YOUR SECRET KEY tasks: - name: Provision instance amazon.aws.ec2_instance: aws_access_key: "{{ access_key}}" aws_secret_key: "{{ secret_key }}" key_name: "{{ pem_key }}" instance_type: t2.micro image_id: ami-02f3416038bdb17fb wait: yes count: 1 region: us-east-2 tags: Name: test-ec2

Save the file....Add commit message and push....

Step 1: First create an Organization: Devops

Description: All Devops Projects

Save

Step 2: Create Credentials for SCM: 

Click Credentials ....Click the +

Enter a Name for your credential. Any Name will work. I used BITBUCKET

Select Credential Type:Source Control

Enter bitbucket username and password

Save

Step 3: Create a Project: AWS-Instance-Creation . Select Org you just created

Choose SCM Type: Git

Enter SCM http url

Select the SCM credentials you created

Enter Branch: Ansible

Check UPDATE REVISION ON LAUNCH

Save

Step 4 Create Template

Select Templates 

Click +  Select Job Template to create a New template

Enter Template Name: T2-Micro-ubuntu-18-instance

Select Inventory: Demo inventory This specifies the server where we want to run the playbook. Demo inventory is localhost,we will be running the Playbook on the awx server

Select Project: AWS-Instance-Creation

Select Playbook: aws.yml

Verbosity: Select 4

Extra Variables : Copy and paste below code

---

host: localhost

pem_key: YOUR_KEY_name

SAVE

 

GO TO TEMPLATES....CLICK THE ROCKET BUTTON TO LAUNCH

THIS WILL PROVISION YOUR INSTANCE