Attaching exisiting EBS volume to a self-healing instances with Ansible

Question

i have instances With ASG attached and according to that once instance is in bad state and brought down and new instance was spun up then the EBS volumes which are orphaned by previous volume should get reattached to newley created instances through playbook

Answer 1

Hello @vreddy, Have a look at this. It might help

---
- hosts: 127.0.0.1
remote_user: ec2-user
become: true
tasks:
- import_tasks: tasks/main.yaml
- name: get instance id
uri:
url: http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id
return_content: yes
register: aws_instance_id
- name: search for existing volume
ec2_vol_facts:
filters:
"tag:app": "nexus"
region: us-west-2
register: existing_volume
- include_tasks: tasks/first_time_installation.yaml
when: not existing_volume.volumes
- include_tasks: tasks/existing_volume.yaml
when: existing_volume.volumes
handlers:
- import_tasks: handlers/main.yaml