I’m not sure why this option didn’t exist to begin with but I certainly use it all the time.
I have the necessary changes over at https://github.com/codezerk/ansible
One thing to note here is that it will remove the default egress rule if not defined in the rules list, similar to the ingress rules.
example:
- name: example ec2 group
local_action:
module: ec2_group
name: example
description: an example EC2 group
vpc_id: 12345
region: eu-west-1a
ec2_secret_key: SECRET
ec2_access_key: ACCESS
rules: - proto: tcp
from_port: 80
to_port: 80
cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
egress: yes <------------------ this will mark it as egress - proto: tcp
from_port: 22
to_port: 22
cidr_ip: 10.0.0.0/8 - proto: udp
from_port: 10050
to_port: 10050
cidr_ip: 10.0.0.0/8 - proto: udp
from_port: 10051
to_port: 10051
group_id: sg-12345678 - proto: all
the containing group name may be specified here
group_name: example