Automate All the Things AWS with Ansible

You want to automate your AWS infrastructure, the provisioning of instances, and your deployments?

Then Ansible is the right tool for you and this workshop gets you up and running in no time.

Three years ago we started using AWS by clicking the infrastructure together. Over the time we built various scripts to support us, but this just worked like duck tape holding a broken system together. So when we had to migrate from Ireland to Frankfurt, we took the chance to start fresh. We looked for a single tool to do everything for us and it turned out that Ansible was the perfect match.

In the workshop we cover the basics of Ansible by setting up a local environment in Vagrant. And we create a similar system on AWS and cover the initial stumbling blocks.

Example code: https://github.com/xeraa/vagrant-ansible-aws

Transcript

1. Automate all the things AWS with Ansible Philipp Krenn̴̴@xeraa
6. Infrastructure | Developer Advocate
7. Agenda AWS & Ansible basics AWS & Ansible in action
8. While we're getting started USB Stick
13. Once upon a time Handcrafting
14. It worked sort of...
15. Root Login https://console.aws.amazon.com Demo
17. Doing it right
19. Pets vs Cattle
20. AWS AWS CloudFormation Terraform http://charity.wtf/2016/02/23/two-weeks-with-terraform/
21. System Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack,...
22. One tool
23. Ansible Inventory Playbook Role
24. Boto
25. USB stick VirtualBox Box
26. VirtualBox Windows, Mac: USB stick Linux https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
27. Box Vagrant Ansible Provisioner
28. But how? Vagrant Ansible Provisioner
29. Credentials vagrant vagrant
30. SSH $ ssh vagrant@127.0.0.1 -p 2222 -o PreferredAuthentications=password
31. Test $ ansible --version
32. Create a VPC in Frankfurt playbooks/0_vpc-create.yml inventory group_vars/all.yml
33. Change In group_vars/all.yml myname
34. Run the playbook $ ansible-playbook playbooks/0_vpc- create.yml
35. If it fails Check your firewall Check your time
36. Security Groups playbooks/1_security-groups.yml
37. Run the playbook $ ansible-playbook playbooks/1_security- groups.yml
38. Create a Key Pair playbooks/2_generate-key.yml
39. Run the playbook $ ansible-playbook playbooks/2_generate- key.yml
40. Create an instance playbooks/3_instance-create.yml and role
41. Run the playbook $ ansible-playbook playbooks/3_instance- create.yml
42. Find the dns_name in the output Something like ec2-52-29-131-72.eu- central-1.compute.amazonaws.com
43. SSH into the instance ssh ubuntu@ec2-52-29-131-72.eu- central-1.compute.amazonaws.com -i ~/.ssh/ id_rsa
44. SSH into the instance $ ssh ec2-52-29-131-72.eu- central-1.compute.amazonaws.com -F ssh.config
45. Change the DNS in your inventory file [first] ec2-52-29-131-72.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com
46. Provision your instance playbooks/4_instance-configure.yml
47. Run the playbook $ ansible-playbook playbooks/4_instance- configure.yml
48. Access the instance ec2-52-29-131-72.eu- central-1.compute.amazonaws.com
49. Ansible-Vault $ ansible-vault
50. Check & Lint check-playbook.sh
51. https://cloudcraft.co
53. Conclusion AWS & Ansible basics AWS & Ansible in action
54. Thanks! Questions? @xeraa