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Hi,
i’m new to ansible, i have read the book “Ansible Up and running” by L. Hochstein. I’m considering ansible as an alternative to puppet. From the book seems ansible can launch commands from a client to other machines, i would launch an ami istance and provisioning directly from user data, without intervention of any client, i can get the configuration files of ansible from S3 and running to itself?

Thanks

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Hi Stefano,

it’s possible to use cloud init to install ansible and then download and install ansible playbooks from s3.

e.g.

runcmd:

  • yum clean all

  • yum install --enablerepo=epel -y gcc python27 python27-devel python27-pip python27-boto libselinux-python aws-cli

  • /usr/bin/pip-2.7 install --upgrade pip-2.7

  • alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python2.7

  • /usr/bin/pip-2.7 install --upgrade ansible

  • mkdir /etc/ansible

  • aws s3 cp s3://my_bucket/ansible /etc/ansible/ --recursive

  • echo localhost > /etc/ansible/hosts

  • /usr/local/bin/ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbook.yml -i /etc/ansible/hosts

Is this what you are wanting to do?