[PLUG] How to provision aws AMI using combination of Ansible & boto on Debian 9.x? (Amey Abhyankar)

[Amey Abhyankar]

Thanks.

On 29 March 2018 at 13:40, riturajb1 . <riturajb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have worked with boto3 and aws-cli at very basic level - just to launch
> instances.
> However, why not use ansible vault if you want to keep credentials secret?
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> Best Regards
> Rituraj

For ground level work, I am searching for exact steps on how to use
aws keys  + Ansible playbook combination to provision test AMI. :-)
I.e. nothing but i) actual file format to save aws keys ii) sample YML
file just to provision basic AMI iii) The exact command for Debian 9

Lot of Ansible documentation is there but it's not helpful from nomad
point of prospective. :-/
Attending paid Ansible classroom sessions is the last resort.

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>> Hello,
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>> Good morning.
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>> Anybody is provisioning aws AMI's using combination of Ansible & boto?
>> For now I am using Ansible to add users. [Debian 8.x in cloud]
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>> I want to use Debian 9.x for AMI provisioning job.
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>> Few quick queries regarding this as follows =
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>> i) Anybody *has* used Debian 9.x for this setup?
>> ii) Any feedback how it goes with boto libraries?
>> iii) Respective Debian 9.x OS with Ansible remains in AWS.
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>> Why boto = to keep credentials,pub/private keys separate from
>> playbooks :-) http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/getting_started.html
>> I want to avoid using aws cli.
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>> I guess engineering students from our group must have done this. :-)
>> I tried to search for blogs but unable to get exact pointers except
>> Ansible documentation which is BIG & generic. :-/
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>> Thanks.
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>> Regards,
>> Amey.
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