Ansible AWS

Ansible AWS

Ansible is an open-source automation tool that allows you to automate various IT tasks, including infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and more. It uses a simple and easy-to-understand syntax called YAML to define tasks, roles, and playbooks.

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a cloud computing platform that offers a wide range of services, such as virtual servers (EC2), storage (S3), databases (RDS), networking, and more.

When you combine Ansible and AWS, you can use Ansible to manage and automate the provisioning and configuration of AWS resources. This integration allows you to create, manage, and scale AWS infrastructure in a programmatic and repeatable manner.

Here’s a general outline of how you can use Ansible with AWS:

1. Set up AWS credentials: Before using Ansible to interact with AWS resources, you’ll need to provide your AWS credentials. These credentials include an AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.

2. Install Ansible: Ensure you have Ansible installed on your local machine or a server from which you want to manage AWS resources.

3. Install AWS CLI: Ansible uses the AWS CLI under the hood to interact with AWS services. So, make sure you have the AWS CLI installed and configured with your AWS credentials.

4. Install Ansible AWS modules: Ansible provides a collection of modules specifically designed for interacting with AWS resources. You might need to install these modules separately if they are not included in your Ansible installation.

5. Write Ansible playbooks: Ansible playbooks are YAML files that define the tasks and actions you want to perform on AWS resources. For example, you can create EC2 instances, configure security groups, provision S3 buckets, etc.

6. Execute Ansible playbooks: Use the ansible-playbook command to run your playbooks against AWS. Ansible will connect to AWS using the configured credentials and the AWS CLI.