Deploy to AWS
Deploy an Ansible development environment to AWS.
The Ansible development environment in AWS
will comprise the following:
- A Virtual Private Cloud(VPC)
- A subnet
- An internet gateway
- A route for public traffic into the VPC
- Windows EC2 instance with
Windows Server 2019
Amazon Machine Image(AMI) - Linux EC2 instance with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Amazon Machine Image(AMI)
Free Tier
Both the
AMIs
used are within the free tier.
Ansible Modules
The following Ansible Modules
can be used to deploy the resources on AWS
using Ansible playbooks:
AWS Resource | Ansible Module |
---|---|
VPC | ec2_vpc_net |
Subnet | ec2_vpc_subnet |
Internet Gateway | ec2_vpc_igw |
Route Table | ec2_vpc_route_table |
Security Group | ec2_group |
Key Pair | ec2_key |
EC2 Instance | ec2 |
Elastic IP Address | ec2_eip |
Ansible codifies your infrastructure in YAML files called Ansible playbooks. You will use pre-written Ansible playbooks to deploy the Ansible development environment to AWS.
Resource Dependency
Several of theAWS
resources depend on other resources. These dependencies mean that you have to run the playbooks in the right order.
Let’s start exploring the playbooks we will cover in this lesson one by one:
Create a VPC
Before you can deploy an Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) instance, you have to provision a VPC
. You will provision a VPC
with a subnet, an internet gateway, and a route table entry for public traffic. Review the aws_create_vpc.yaml
playbook below:
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