How to create an ec2 snapshot using Ansible Playbook

Question

Hi Team,

I am new to the Ansible playbook. I want to create an ec2 snapshot using Ansible Playbook. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can create an EC2 snapshot from an existing EBS volume using Ansible Playbook. 

# Simple snapshot of volume using volume_id
- ec2_snapshot:
    volume_id: vol-abcdef12
    description: snapshot of /data from DB123 taken 2013/11/28 12:18:32