ec2_win_password – gets the default administrator password for ec2 windows instances

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• Gets the default administrator password from any EC2 Windows instance. The instance is referenced by its id (e.g. i-XXXXXXX). This module has a dependency on python-boto.

Requirements

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

• boto
• cryptography
• python >= 2.6

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# Example of getting a password
- name: get the Administrator password
  ec2_win_password:
    profile: my-boto-profile
    instance_id: i-XXXXXX
    region: us-east-1
    key_file: "~/aws-creds/my_test_key.pem"

# Example of getting a password using a variable
- name: get the Administrator password
  ec2_win_password:
    profile: my-boto-profile
    instance_id: i-XXXXXX
    region: us-east-1
    key_data: "{{ ec2_private_key }}"

# Example of getting a password with a password protected key
- name: get the Administrator password
  ec2_win_password:
    profile: my-boto-profile
    instance_id: i-XXXXXX
    region: us-east-1
    key_file: "~/aws-creds/my_protected_test_key.pem"
    key_passphrase: "secret"

# Example of waiting for a password
- name: get the Administrator password
  ec2_win_password:
    profile: my-boto-profile
    instance_id: i-XXXXXX
    region: us-east-1
    key_file: "~/aws-creds/my_test_key.pem"
    wait: yes
    wait_timeout: 45

Status

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

Authors

• Rick Mendes (@rickmendes)