ec2_instance – Create & manage EC2 instances

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• Create and manage AWS EC2 instance

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• boto
• boto3
• botocore
• python >= 2.6

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.

# Terminate every running instance in a region. Use with EXTREME caution.
- ec2_instance:
    state: absent
    filters:
      instance-state-name: running

# restart a particular instance by its ID
- ec2_instance:
    state: restarted
    instance_ids:
      - i-12345678

# start an instance with a public IP address
- ec2_instance:
    name: "public-compute-instance"
    key_name: "prod-ssh-key"
    vpc_subnet_id: subnet-5ca1ab1e
    instance_type: c5.large
    security_group: default
    network:
      assign_public_ip: true
    image_id: ami-123456
    tags:
      Environment: Testing

# start an instance and Add EBS
- ec2_instance:
    name: "public-withebs-instance"
    vpc_subnet_id: subnet-5ca1ab1e
    instance_type: t2.micro
    key_name: "prod-ssh-key"
    security_group: default
    volumes:
      - device_name: /dev/sda1
        ebs:
          volume_size: 16
          delete_on_termination: true

# start an instance with a cpu_options
- ec2_instance:
    name: "public-cpuoption-instance"
    vpc_subnet_id: subnet-5ca1ab1e
    tags:
      Environment: Testing
    instance_type: c4.large
    volumes:
    - device_name: /dev/sda1
      ebs:
        delete_on_termination: true
    cpu_options:
        core_count: 1
        threads_per_core: 1

# start an instance and have it begin a Tower callback on boot
- ec2_instance:
    name: "tower-callback-test"
    key_name: "prod-ssh-key"
    vpc_subnet_id: subnet-5ca1ab1e
    security_group: default
    tower_callback:
      # IP or hostname of tower server
      tower_address: 1.2.3.4
      job_template_id: 876
      host_config_key: '[secret config key goes here]'
    network:
      assign_public_ip: true
    image_id: ami-123456
    cpu_credit_specification: unlimited
    tags:
      SomeThing: "A value"

# start an instance with ENI (An existing ENI ID is required)
- ec2_instance:
    name: "public-eni-instance"
    key_name: "prod-ssh-key"
    vpc_subnet_id: subnet-5ca1ab1e
    network:
      interfaces:
        - id: "eni-12345"
    tags:
      Env: "eni_on"
    volumes:
    - device_name: /dev/sda1
      ebs:
        delete_on_termination: true
    instance_type: t2.micro
    image_id: ami-123456

# add second ENI interface
- ec2_instance:
    name: "public-eni-instance"
    network:
      interfaces:
        - id: "eni-12345"
        - id: "eni-67890"
    image_id: ami-123456
    tags:
      Env: "eni_on"
    instance_type: t2.micro

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Ryan Scott Brown (@ryansb)