Or look into AWS Batch. It's also fantastic for parallelisable tasks or
many identical tasks. Lambda for tiny short-lived tasks, Batch for larger
or long-lived tasks. Takes a bit of setup, but well worth it.

Regards, K.


On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 4:10 PM Barun kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

> There will be way to do it, but let me tell you that ansible is mainly
> used for configuration and management not or orchestration, it has module
> limitations. If you want to do infrastructure orchestration and for AWS
> specially then I would request you to go for terraform for infrastructure
> provisioning, it has many feature and easy to use even you can call ansible
> playbooks to perform post build taks.
>
> https://www.terraform.io/intro/index.html
>
> Hope this will help you, I know u had asked for ansible and I am telling
> you to use terraform, once you use it, will love it. Try it.
>
> On Sat, 25 May 2019, 10:09 Tuyen Nguyen, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I thought variables cannot go across different plays in a playbook ?
>>
>> I know how to create a playbook to start up an AWS instance, and register
>> the instance_id of the new instance, and then use the ec2 module again to
>> terminate the instance_id.
>>
>> Initially to start up the AWS instance, I need to run the play with
>> hosts: localhost, and I register the instance_id as a variable in Ansible
>>
>> If I do
>> hosts: <ipaddress>
>> after that, and I can run the task against the client on the IP address,
>>
>> but then next, if I do hosts: localhost again to use the ec2 module to
>> terminate the instance, would I be able to call on the instance_id variable?
>>
>>
>> On Friday, May 24, 2019 at 2:16:09 PM UTC-4, Barun kumar wrote:
>>>
>>> You can call facts variable in playbook ,
>>> 1- playbook to create a instace
>>> 2- register instance instance creation facts and call IP to normal tasks
>>> adding variable in same play then call terminate playbook below.
>>>
>>> I have given you logic, more thought process you  need to apply while
>>> you create a playbook taks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 24 May 2019, 23:02 Tuyen Nguyen, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Currently, to do what I want to do above, I have 3 different playbooks
>>>> running with a shell script.
>>>>
>>>> First the script runs a playbook aws.yml to start up an instance with a
>>>> static IP address using the ec2 module, and I have it record the instance
>>>> id to a local file
>>>>
>>>> Next, the script runs a normal playbook task to connect to the AWS
>>>> instance using the static IP address.
>>>>
>>>> Lastly, after the tasks are complete on that AWS instance, the script
>>>> calls a last playbook to terminate AWS instance, and I pass the instance id
>>>> as a variable using --extra-vars
>>>>
>>>> How can I create a single playbook that would run the normal playbook
>>>> task against the AWS instance?
>>>>
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