Deploy application on a newly created AWS

[fara...@gmail.com]

I am creating an Ansible playbook that has two roles: one role that creates an AWS instance (from a pre-made AMI which includes Ansible), then another role that deploys Sonatype Nexus into that instance. I've tested the roles separately (and locally) to make sure they're working fine and they work as expected, however, my problem is figuring out how to deploy Nexus into that newly created instance.

Is my approach wrong (having two separate roles for this)? I need some guidance as I'm new to Ansible.

Thanks

[fara...@gmail.com]

[Arbab Nazar]

You need to make your playbook like this:

---

 - hosts: local

   connection: local

   gather_facts: no

   roles:

     - aws_instance_create_role

 - hosts: webserver # make this group during instance creation, take help from below mentioned links

   become: yes 

   remote_user: ubuntu (user in case of ubuntu instance)

   gather_facts: yes

   roles:

     - your_role_that_you_want_to_run

https://github.com/edx/configuration/blob/master/playbooks/roles/launch_ec2/tasks/main.yml#L84

https://github.com/arbabnazar/ansible-aws-vpc-ha-wordpress/blob/master/aws/tasks/webserver.yml#L66

Hope that might help you