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

[Arun Khan]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Amey Abhyankar <sco1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> 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.

Have you tried asking in Ansible forums?  (I'm not an Ansible expert
but I hear a lot about Ansible / AWS integration)

-- Arun Khan