http://imil.net/blog/tags/ec2/ Recent content in EC2 on iMil.net Hugo en-us Fri, 05 Aug 2016 14:07:00 +0000 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2016/ansible_and_aws_asg/ Fri, 05 Aug 2016 14:07:00 +0000 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2016/ansible_and_aws_asg/ <p>I found myself searching ridiculously too long to achieve what I believed was a simple task: to apply an <a href="http://www.ansible.com">Ansible</a> <em>role</em> to newly created instances&hellip; started by an <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/">Auto Scaling Group</a>. If you&rsquo;re used to <a href="http://www.ansible.com">Ansible</a> you know that it relies on an <em>inventory</em> to apply a <code>playbook</code>, but obviously, when you&rsquo;re firing up <em>EC2</em> instances with the same <code>playbook</code>, you are not able to know what will be your virtual machines IP addresses, nor can <a href="http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_dynamic_inventory.html">ec2.py</a>, the recommended method to deal with dynamic inventories.</p>