S3 - File download to EC2 Windows Instance

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I am trying to achieve the following:

  1. Create ec2 instance (play 1)
  2. Configure some services (play 2)
  3. Download some iso from my s3 bucket to the ec2 instance (sql, etc)
  4. Install

I have a play with hosts set to localhost to create ec2 instance. Its working fine.

  • name: infrastructure setup

hosts: localhost

gather_facts: no

vars_files:

  • testcfg.yml

tasks:

  • ec2:

…

register: ec2_result

  • name: add hosts to group

add_host:

…

group: windows

with_items: “{{ ec2_result.instances }}”

the second play uses hosts: windows (the host group that I created in previous play) to configure windows services. Its working fine as well

  • name: Server Setup Play

hosts: windows

vars_files:

  • testcfg.yml

gather_facts: false

tasks:

  • win_feature:

name: AS-Web-Support

now, I want to download a file from S3 into this ec2 instance. This is where I am having problem. What I have figured out (rightly or wrongly) is that I have to create a new play with hosts=localhost, otherwise if I stay within the previous play, the command will execute remotely over winrm which I don’t want to do. If I create a new play with hosts=localhost, how can I tell aws_s3 what my destination will be?

  • name: S3 Play

hosts: localhost

vars_files:

  • testcfg.yml

gather_facts: false

tasks:

  • name: get sql iso from s3 to the newly created server

aws_s3:

region: ‘{{ region }}’

bucket: “{{ bucket }}”

object: …

dest: ???