How to create AMI from running instance using ansible

Question

Hi, I need to take AMI(amazon machine image-clone of running instance) from running aws ubuntu instance using ansible playbook. I have one aws ec2 ubuntu instance. So i have to take image of Server weekly once. How to achieve this using ansible-playbook?

Comments

Hey @Latchu, can you please describe what you mean by "take the AMI"?

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Hi Kalgi,

i have found the solution as well created ansible-playbook. Its successfully created. Thanks pa. Below is ansible-playbook to create ami from ec2-instance.

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- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
    region: us-east-1
    ins_name: Sample
    ami_name: Sample
  tasks:
    - name: To Get Instance Id
      command: "aws ec2 describe-instances
                --filters Name=tag:Name,Values={{ ins_name }}
                --query 'Reservations[0].Instances[0].InstanceId'
                --output text"
      register: instanceid

    - name: To Create AMI
      ec2_ami:

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     --query 'Reservations[0].Instances[0].InstanceId'

What does this do?

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hello mayank,

have a look at this link

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-instances.html

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Cloning an instance is very easily done using the console. Why use ansible?

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launching instance or creating bucket also very easy. Then why should we use ansible? Because here  i deploying automatically everything using jenkins+ansible+docker+kubernetes and some times using packer tool too.

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Yeah well, if you're trying to automate everything then ansible is a good approach.