I've seen 2 ways to approach this, using boto's builtin profiles to manage multiple accounts or create multiple instances of ec2.py and ec2.ini for each account and then use -i to point at individual ones or keep them in a directory and point at that with ansible.cfg
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't have input on the actual question but I'm interested to hear why one > would have multiple AWS account for a given domain (as in responsibility > domain, not in DNS domain). > > It seems to me that a single domain can be managed by using single account. > Combining the accounts into a single ansible managed thing defeats the whole > purpose of separating stuff. So the conclusion would be to either have a > single account or mutliple ansible "things" that each manage their own > responsibility domain. Then again I don't know the whole picture and my POV > is probably very naive. > > /Martin > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:36 PM datsun80 <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Nobody? >> >> On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 11:03:57 AM UTC-5, datsun80 wrote: >>> >>> I am looking for ways that others have organized their inventory files >>> when they have multiple aws accounts. >>> >>> Little background, today we have one folder with all inventory files in >>> it. The inventory directory is a mix between static and a dynamic inventory >>> files. I am tagging the ec2 instances so I can call a playbook specifying >>> hosts, stage_website or prod_website for example. >>> >>> We are switching moving all of our separate instances to their own AWS >>> accounts however and this is where I need to find an elegant way to model >>> this. I will have one AWS account for dev, qa, stage, and production. I >>> would like to use the dynamic inventory approach as that supports auto >>> scaling nicely. I looked up using profiles in boto config but it doesn't >>> look like the ec2.py file supports it. >>> >>> I did find this: >>> https://github.com/jjneely/ansible/tree/multiple-aws-accounts/plugins/inventory >>> which someone rewrote to support multiple aws accounts which I can use but I >>> wanted to get input on how others have done this before I do. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/b553cba4-ee45-4a1a-ae8f-55f32d866c67%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > http://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher > http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmarcher > Mobil: +43 / 660 / 62 45 103 > UID: ATU68801424 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAK1mKEQbCvA21vXzRieL6JUZSzd98gxnDWKoE1BoyXF3zzutHw%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Brian Coca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAJ5XC8mtS7JSdjHrqk%3DBDNHawpFZgvxGmsPbYp-hMeYDNAW9UQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
