EC2 provisionning and configuring with variables from inventory/ec2.py

[Olivier Vernin]

Hi,
I am facing a little problem and I don't find a clear solution
I need to provision a new EC2 (AWS) instance and configure it.
During the configuration I use some variables from the inventory script ec2.py

So I tried two approaches:
    1)  I executed two different playbooks under a shell script
    ¦   - ansible-playbook create_ec2.yml
    ¦   - ansible-playbook configure_ec2.yml

    ¦   This approach works but I use a shell script which execute two ansible scripts

    2)  I execute a meta playbook (which include create_ec2.yml then configure_ec2.yml)
    ¦   - ansible-playbook meta_ec2.yml

    ¦   This approach fail because it doesn't know variable like ec2_private_ip_address from ec2.py
    ¦   So I tried different thinks to get those variables, add
    ¦   ¦   ''' - name: Refresh AWS Cache
    ¦   ¦   ¦   - command: inventory.d/ec2.py --refresh-cache
    ¦   ¦   '''
    ¦   ¦   ¦   - name: gathering ec2 facts
    ¦   ¦   ¦   ¦ ec2_facts:
    ¦   ¦   '''
    ¦   But none of them work
Is anyone has an advice?

[Michael DeHaan]

Typically the create playbook would include the configure playbook, using the "add_host" trick.

This is covered a bit in EC2 examples, others here can also offer some good pointers to EC2 workflow.

We're going to working on making the EC2 "best practices" type doc stuff a lot better in the coming months to show how to string these things together.

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