ANSIBLE DYNAMIC INVENTORY AWS EC2 - HOW TO WALKTHROUGH

[@kaokakelvin6202]

Really helped out, i was stuck for almost a week on my project. Kudos👍

[@mandeepmails]

Awesome walk-through. Very under-rated channel. Appreciated

[@ortizs23]

Awesome tutorial, followed this and working perfectly. Thanks!

[@TheSudo]

Great to hear!

[@dmarsell]

Thank you very much!

[@tom.bailey]

Thanks dude, this was really helpful.

[@angelmanuelcamarero9813]

Nice, clear and very well explained. Thx

[@niccolomachiavelli3542]

Thank you a lot! This video was really helpful

[@markserkiz3272]

Really cool videos, please keep it going.

[@yaroslav-3450]

Great and very helpful video!

[@shankarp4795]

brilliant!!!

[@VânNguyễn-p8l8k]

you saved meee, thanks a lottttttt

[@gkaruk]

Great content and explained some of the missing aws_ec2 collection how to. One area we have been struggling with today is how to add a static variable such as "ansible_env" like we have in our static inventories. We cant seem to get it to working by using static.yml with that variable and then access the variable in a playbook? Do you have any pointers or come across this use case?

[@mjmurphy54321]

Very informative thanks!

[@blees123]

great content. It's really neat the ability to combine static and dynamic inventory. With these two being mixed, I am wondering if there is a possibility to provision those servers using this method, although I see that you used Terraform to provision, it would be great to make use of dynamic inventory to provision a server. if (server not exist) then create else update.

[@AJ-xk5gx]

Lovely explanation. Is there a way to set the usernames in the inventory file itself so that you can run the ping module as an ad-hoc command? Sort of the same way you could specify in a static inventory.

[@TheSudo]

Yes you can combine a static and dynamic inventory file such as the way I do at the towards of the video. This will allow you to specify variables in the static inventory file.

[@someguywithabeard5886]

Are you able to use an IAM role within the console to allow access to Ansible to create the dynamic inventory? If so, what bare minimum permissions/profile would someone need to apply to the Ansible Node instance to allow this?

[@TheSudo]

Yes you can define a profile with the AWS cli using the IAM role ARN docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-role.html and give it ec2 describe permissions

[@someguywithabeard5886]

@@TheSudo Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply! Also, great video as well :)

[@ortizs23]

@@someguywithabeard5886 Yes, IAM role works well, I have this setup working.

[@prashantcruise]

I have tried but I have few doubts like what if I want to run the PlayBook from GitHub action do and make those tags added via -extra-vars=tag:env=test !! Can we do that with this plugin or do I need to create a python script !

[@XxmykingdomxX23]

Can you list multiple aws profiles?

[@ortizs23]

On my AAP server in the aws config, i have multiple aws profiles, instead of hardcoding the profile in aws_ec2 playbook you can make it a variable and then pass the profile during run. I do this for a lot especially when devs are calling ansible API's so, something like aws_profile: "{{ profile }}". hope this helps

[@GerryChoco]

What if ssh is blocked and we only allowed to use ssm?