How to Search for EC2 AMI ID by AWS Region with Ansible?
I'm going to show you a live Playbook and some simple Ansible code.
I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot.
Ansible Search for EC2 AMI ID by AWS Region
amazon.aws.ec2_ami_info
- Gather information about ec2 AMIs
Let's talk about the Ansible module ec2_ami_info.
The full name is amazon.aws.ec2_ami_info, which means that is part of the collection of modules to interact with AWS.
The module's purpose is to gather information about ec2 AMIs.
Parameters
- filters _dictionary_ - filter terms
Example:
``yaml
name: "RHEL-8.3.0_HVM--x86_64-Hourly*"
region: "us-east-1"
`
The following parameters are useful in order to Search for EC2 AMI ID by AWS Region using the module ec2_ami_info.
The only parameter needed is the filters and specify the filters keys and values.
For example, let's search for Red Hat Enterprise Linux machines version 8.3.0 running on HVM infrastructure, architecture x86_64 Hourly paid.
Links
- [amazon.aws.ec2_ami_info
](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/amazon/aws/ec2_ami_info_module.html)
Playbook
How to Search for EC2 AMI ID by AWS Region with Ansible.
I'm going to show you how to Gather Information on a specific "RHEL-8.3.0_HVM" AWS EC2 Hourly Machine for the region "us-east-1" and select the EC2 AMI ID using Ansible Playbook.
code
`yaml
---
- name: AMI search
hosts: localhost
become: false
gather_facts: false
vars:
aws_region: "us-east-1"
aws_name: "RHEL-8.3.0_HVM--x86_64-Hourly*"
tasks:
- name: search for AMI
amazon.aws.ec2_ami_info:
filters:
name: "{{ aws_name }}"
region: "{{ aws_region }}"
register: ami_found
- name: print AMI
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: ami_found
`
execution
``bash
$ ansible-playbook ami_search.yml
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit
localhost does not match 'all'
PLAY [AMI search] *
TASK [search for existing AMI] **
ok: [localhost]
TASK [debug]
ok: [localhost] => {
"ami_found": {
"changed": false,
"failed": false,
"images": [
{
"archi