How to Integrate Ansible with AWS EC2 and Manage Instances Dynamically
If you're working with AWS EC2 and want to automate your infrastructure using Ansible, this guide shows how to set up a dynamic inventory system. This means Ansible will automatically detect your EC2 instances based on tags—no need to maintain static inventory files! Step 1: Install Required Dependencies On your Ansible control node, make sure you have Python and pip installed. Then install the AWS SDK for Python (boto3), which is required for Ansible to communicate with AWS APIs. sudo yum install python3 -y pip3 install boto3 Also, configure AWS CLI with appropriate credentials: aws configure Why this matters: Boto3 and AWS CLI let Ansible fetch details about your EC2 infrastructure dynamically, based on filters like tags and regions. Step 2: Create the Dynamic Inventory Configuration mkdir -p /home/ec2-user cd /home/ec2-user Create a file called aws_ec2.yml with the following content: plugin: amazon.aws.aws_ec2 regions: - ap-south-1 filters: tag:Env...