Hello everyone! Here goes my first post in the wonderful Ansible project :)
Here's the problem that I am facing: I am trying to launch an EC2 instance (c3.2xlarge) and, in the process, I want to resize the root partition from 8GB to something bigger. Also while in the process of launching the instance, I'd like to add those two extra disks (2x80GB SSD) that come with this instance. I do not know if this is even achievable via Ansible. So far, I looked at these two modules: - http://docs.ansible.com/ec2_module.html - http://docs.ansible.com/ec2_vol_module.html I played with them in different ways, with no avail. Here is what I have now to successfully launch the instance. Playbook: provision.yml --- # http://docs.ansible.com/ec2_module.html - name: spin up the all in one instance hosts: localhost connection: local gather_facts: False tasks: - name: create security group local_action: module: ec2_group name: "{{ security_group }}" description: security group for the all in one server region: "{{ region }}" vpc_id: "{{ vpc_id }}" rules: - proto: all from_port: 0 to_port: 65535 cidr_ip: 87.193.177.242/32 rules_egress: - proto: all from_port: 0 to_port: 65535 cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0 register: ec2_group tags: provisioning - name: launch instance local_action: module: ec2 aws_access_key: "{{ ec2_access_key }}" aws_secret_key: "{{ ec2_secret_key }}" count: 1 region: "{{ region }}" zone: "{{ zone }}" instance_type: "{{ instance_type }}" image: "{{ ami }}" ebs_optimized: yes state: present group: "{{ security_group }}" vpc_subnet_id: "{{ subnet }}" key_name: "{{ keypair }}" monitoring: yes assign_public_ip: yes wait: yes wait_timeout: 300 volumes: - device_name: /dev/xvda volume_size: 20 register: ec2 # - name: adding remaining disks #(c3.2xlarge has 2x80GB SSD) # local_action: ec2_vol instance={{ item.id }} volume_size=80 count=2 # with_items: ec2.instances # register: ec2_vol And for what it's worth, here are my variables host_vars/localhost: <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Lnz04uQyBRA/U6AbtsuVn4I/AAAAAAAABKw/TnvCy0bX55A/s1600/ansible_ec2.png>#AWS wheezy AMI IDs => https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Wheezy #(EU-West-1, PVM, EBS-backed, x86_64)region: eu-west-1 zone: eu-west-1a instance_type: c3.2xlarge ami: ami-630fcb14 #network & security security_group: allinone subnet: subnet-ddca27aa vpc_id: vpc-9037d9f5 keypair: ansible-ec2 You can see how I tried and shamefully failed to add those two SSDs (count parameter is not even supported by module ec2_vol) :) Curiously enough, if I use the volumes parameter of the module ec2 as above, I get two EBS volumes showing up in the AWS console: /dev/sda and of course /dev/xvda (this one being the root device). I cannot even see /dev/sda in the EC2 instance. FYI, this AMI launches with a 8GB root partition by default. Would be great if I could make that bigger with an Ansible module/parameter. I am very much aware on how to do this "outside" of Ansible, but it's not desired. Second issue would be attaching those two disks that come with this instance type... Any help/hint would be greatly appreciated. See attached screenshot to better understand what I'm trying to achieve with Ansible. Thank you Michael for this great tool!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/0e3529da-00a9-478d-aa94-51d65bdd6d47%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
