ansible and AWS opsworks

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If anybody in the list is managing AWS opsworks operations from
ansible, can they share their best practices here? Thanks.

Javier Candeira

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As I understood it, Opsworks used Chef, but I would love to be corrected and here it was actually pluggable.

Many people are using our EC2 modules directly currently and thus don’t need OpsWorks.

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As I understood it, Opsworks used Chef, but I would love to be corrected and
here it was actually pluggable.

Yes, I understood so too. But if there is a way to access the prebuilt
recipes via an API, we might get Ansible access to OpsWorks. I see it
as a win/win: the ease and flexibility of working with ansible on my
end, while leveraging whatever prebuilt recipes the Amazon engineers
have already provided for us.

Many people are using our EC2 modules directly currently and thus don't need
OpsWorks.

I'm currently building my own ansible plays that way, but I thought of
asking about programmatic OpsWorks. I'll investigate the possibility
myself.

If I got anywhere, would you consider a higher level Amazon OpsWorks
module to go with the lower level EC2 one?

J

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I wouldn’t consider it until OpsWorks is truly config tool agnostic.