suggest having "allow_destroy" tag in ec2_module to prevent accidental deletion of servers

[Kesten Broughton]

I separate my creation and provisioning into aws.yml and site.yml.

Often we start with a few servers and then increase the size of a cluster later.

I'd like to use aws exact_count in the aws.yml so that it is idempotent but I do not want to allow destructive behavior.

It would be nice if we could pass allow_destroy to ec2_module so that exact_count would have "at least" semantics.

It can be pretty dangerous if you forget to limit the playbook correctly and accidentally delete a bunch of servers because your scope was too large.

I think non-destructive behaviour as a default would have avoided this situation as well.

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9431

Would a pr for this be considered?

 

Kesten Broughton
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