Creating and Naming a Cluster of EC2 Servers Using Ansible

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Hi
I’m trying to automate creating and destroying our staging environment. So far, I have a playbook to create the cluster:

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I’m doing this by registering the results of the ec2 provisioning task and then cycle through the hosts in a subsequent task for creating the dns records.

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Thanks for the reply, Dan. Do you have the code available somewhere?

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On the run now but will share this later.

Btw, are you really missing the task of allocating the EIPs to the instances? This would go before the route53 task.

Dan.

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Hope you can get some inspiration from here: https://github.com/danvaida/Atlassian-Stash-Ansible/blob/master/ec2.yml

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Thanks a bunch, Dan. That is helpful. My instances are all VPC instances and I use ELB for all of them so just the private IP works fine for it.