Tag Archives: AWS
Ansible Unable to Locate AWS Credentials
I have been trying to connect to AWS ec2 instance with ansible and as per the instructions from the ansible documentation I have placed my credentials in ~/.aws/credentials but somehow botocore was not picking it up and I have spent at least 10 hours debugging this. Trying all the possible combinations in all the possible places where ansible…
Ansible and Dynamic Amazon EC2 Inventory Management
To create amazon ec2 instances dynamically and to manage them I have followed the following instructions-I have chosen Ubuntu 16.04 as my ansible controller machine and will be using an ubuntu AMI. I have also generated some credentials from amazon’s IAM. Add the credentials into environment variables. export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='YOUR_AWS_API_KEY' export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='YOUR_AWS_API_SECRET_KEY' To get started with dynamic EC2 inventory management, we…