Facts for Create and Terminate Instances

Ansible provides additional EC2 information of ec2 module using ec2_facts which contains instance ids, image ids, regions, etc. Boot up plays creates ec2 instances for projects and applications are installed and datasets are loaded to complete jobs on Cloud resources. If all jobs are finished successfully, the last step would be terminating VM instances. boot.yml playbook stores ec2 instance ids using ec2_facts in YAML format and terminate.yml playbook uses the information to delete instances.

Sample ec2 facts are: .. include:: ec2_facts_for_vars.txt

to_nice_yaml

boot.yml playbook stores instance information in a YAML file therefore terminate.yml can find instance ids to terminate. to_nice_yaml and copy module (with content option) is used to store ec2_fact information in a YAML file.

include_vars

The nice thing about Ansible is that data variables in a YAML file can be easily imported using include_vars. terminate.yml playbook uses it to read the instance information that started by boot.yml