AWS CLI Ansible Playbook on Ubuntu 14.04

July 30, 2015 • 1 min read

awslinuxservers
Contents

Here’s a simple Ansible playbook that installs the AWS CLI and all the required dependencies on Ubuntu 14.04 - should work on other versions of Ubuntu too.

Setup

  • Clone or download the jveldboom/ansible-aws-cli repo to your Ansible machine
  • Add your host information within inventories/hosts
  • Add your AWS credentials within vars/vars.yml

Run Playbook

Below is how I prefer to run Ansible playbooks since it allows you to choose the host and SSH user dynamically.

ansible-playbook \
  -i inventories/hosts playbook.yml \
  --extra-vars="hosts=vagrant user=vagrant" \
  --ask-pass

The --extra-vars parameter sets the “host” and “user” variable in the playbook file. And --ask-pass will prompt you for a password.