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? >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/77cb5f2c-1277-4042-b43f-14bb40f3c10a%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/77cb5f2c-1277-4042-b43f-14bb40f3c10a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- >> 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/dce09a32-f7fb-42fa-8b63-ecfb0ce756af%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/dce09a32-f7fb-42fa-8b63-ecfb0ce756af%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > 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/CADG%3DkoszgN2BYKqe6eL3MA%2Bsw%3DeGnx9Mf4fmpRgqtnXi4P%3DxOA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CADG%3DkoszgN2BYKqe6eL3MA%2Bsw%3DeGnx9Mf4fmpRgqtnXi4P%3DxOA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Karl Auer Email : [email protected] Website: http://2pisoftware.com GPG/PGP : 301B 1F4E 624D AD99 242C 7A68 EC24 7113 E854 4A4E Previous: 958A 2647 6C44 D376 3D63 86A5 FFB2 20BC 0257 5816 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. 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