ansible-cloudformation-example

working example(s) of creating cloudformation stacks in yaml and uploading via ansible

how to run

Obviously, YMMV, some things are hardcoded.

AWS_PROFILE="" ansible-playbook -c local -i "localhost," test1-single-ec2.yml
AWS_PROFILE="" ansible-playbook -c local -i "localhost," test2-full-vpc.yml -e "stack_name=test2a stack_cidr=10.4"
AWS_PROFILE="" ansible-playbook -c local -i "localhost," test2-full-vpc.yml -e "stack_name=test2b stack_cidr=10.5"

tips

• Spend a lot of time on the cloudformation console to look for errors. Some will kill the 'reason' column.
• If there's a major problem with autoscaling, it only shows up in the EC2->autoscaling panel.

library patches

Since Ansible always has a huge backlog of pull requests, it's necessary to have a local copy of new or patched modules. The modules in library/ are from the following repos or pull requests:

• cloudformation_assemble: ansible/ansible-modules-core#1034