ec2_launch_template – Manage EC2 launch templates

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

Synopsis

• Create, modify, and delete EC2 Launch Templates, which can be used to create individual instances or with Autoscaling Groups.
• The ec2_instance and ec2_asg modules can, instead of specifying all parameters on those tasks, be passed a Launch Template which contains settings like instance size, disk type, subnet, and more.

Requirements

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

• boto
• boto3 >= 1.6.0
• botocore
• python >= 2.6

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Make instance with an instance_role
  ec2_launch_template:
    name: "test-with-instance-role"
    image_id: "ami-foobarbaz"
    key_name: my_ssh_key
    instance_type: t2.micro
    iam_instance_profile: myTestProfile
    disable_api_termination: true

- name: Make one with a different instance type, but leave the older version as default
  ec2_launch_template:
    name: "test-with-instance-role"
    image_id: "ami-foobarbaz"
    default_version: 1
    key_name: my_ssh_key
    instance_type: c5.4xlarge
    iam_instance_profile: myTestProfile
    disable_api_termination: true

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)