How I can destroy asnible generated resources in AWS with a playbook?

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Aamir Saleem

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Sep 5, 2019, 1:11:06 PM9/5/19
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How I can destroy asnible generated resources in AWS with a playbook?

Actually, as we can removed all the resources created by terraforms by single script, can I do same with ansible? 

Mike Sawyers

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Sep 5, 2019, 2:51:30 PM9/5/19
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If you created resources using cloud formation templates it should be clean enough to delete them in the same way. 

Otherwise I would think you would need logic to find the resources and remove them one by one. 

Like if your stack resources include a build number tag or git commit hash as an example then you could search for resources with that tag and delete them.

But by default ansible doesn't keep a state file like terraform so it doesn't just know what should tear down.


On Thu, Sep 5, 2019, 10:11 AM Aamir Saleem <aamirsa...@gmail.com> wrote:
How I can destroy asnible generated resources in AWS with a playbook?

Actually, as we can removed all the resources created by terraforms by single script, can I do same with ansible? 

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Aamir Saleem

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Sep 5, 2019, 3:36:49 PM9/5/19
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Can I instantiate terraforms scripts by ansible?


On Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 11:51:30 PM UTC+5, Mike Sawyers wrote:
If you created resources using cloud formation templates it should be clean enough to delete them in the same way. 

Otherwise I would think you would need logic to find the resources and remove them one by one. 

Like if your stack resources include a build number tag or git commit hash as an example then you could search for resources with that tag and delete them.

But by default ansible doesn't keep a state file like terraform so it doesn't just know what should tear down.


On Thu, Sep 5, 2019, 10:11 AM Aamir Saleem <aamirsa...@gmail.com> wrote:
How I can destroy asnible generated resources in AWS with a playbook?

Actually, as we can removed all the resources created by terraforms by single script, can I do same with ansible? 

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Mike Sawyers

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Sep 5, 2019, 3:53:15 PM9/5/19
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There is a module for terraform or command actions, so if you meet those requirement I don't see why not. 




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Aamir Saleem

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Sep 6, 2019, 1:41:36 PM9/6/19
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Mean I need to install anisble and Terraform both on same VM?

Mike Sawyers

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Sep 6, 2019, 2:28:19 PM9/6/19
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That is my reading of the module yes.  The controller executing the tf template must also have terraform installed and likely in the environment path.  


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Aamir Saleem

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Sep 6, 2019, 2:41:36 PM9/6/19
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thx  man
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