# Using Ansible with Cloudformation

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-with-cloudformation/16637>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 29, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-with-cloudformation/16637 "2014-10-29T20:09:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![S.Mclaughlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@S.Mclaughlin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/S.Mclaughlin)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-with-cloudformation/16637/1 "2014-10-29T20:09:49Z")

</div>

I am trying to use ansible to provision a CoreOS cluster and I am newbie to Ansible. I followed the directions for the ansible cloudformation module but I am lost as to what should be the contents of my hosts file? Will appreciate any assistance. Thanks.