Deploy Web-Server on AWS through ANSIBLE!
What is ANSIBLE?
Ansible is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool enabling infrastructure as code.
What is an AWS EC2 Instance?
An EC2 instance is a virtual server in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud for running applications on the Amazon Web Services infrastructure.
🔰 Task — Deploy Webserver on AWS through Ansible!
♦️ Provision EC2 instance through ansible.
♦️ Retrieve the IP Address of instance using dynamic inventory concept.
♦️ Configure the webserver through ansible!
♦️ Create a role for the webserver to customize the Instance and deploy the webpage.
Let’s start the task …
Step 1: First of all, we need to install python package called boto , before launching the instance , as it provides programmatic connectivity to AWS.
command : pip3 install boto
Step 2 : Create a role for launching the AWS instance.
command : ansible-galaxy role init aws-instance(role _name)
- Write the code inside tasks/main.yml file of roles , for launching AWS instance.
- Write the value of access and secret variables inside the vars/main.yml file, which contains AWS_Access_Key and AWS_Secret_Key.
access: XXXXXXXXXXX
secret: XXXXXXXXXXX- Give the path of role inside the ansible configuration file. i.e./etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
Step 3 : Create a playkbook that will connect aws-instance role to launch the instance.
- Run the playbook in localhost as we don't have public IP of the instance.
command : ansible-playbook aws.yml
The instance has been launched Successfully in AWS …👇
Step 4 : To get the Public IP of instance dynamically in the inventory Download the ec2.py and ec2.ini files.
command : wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/stable-2.9/contrib/inventory/ec2.py
command : wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/stable-2.9/contrib/inventory/ec2.ini
- Make both file executable file executable.
- Inside ec2.py file , change the firstline 👇 to execute the file with proper python interpreter.
#!/usr/bin/python3- Provide the Access Credentials i.e. AWS Access Key and Secret Key.
Step 5 : Now , Configure the inventory .
- Now , We can get the public IP of the instance and it will be able to ping from any source.
command : ansible all — list-hosts
Let’s Configure the Webserver …
Step 6 : Create a role for Configuring webserver inside the EC2 instance.
command : ansible-galaxy role init webserver
Step 7 : Write the code for webserver Configuration in tasks/main.yml file of webserver role.
Step 8 : Create a playkbook that will connect webserver role to configure it.
Now , Run the playbook .
command : ansible-playbook web.yml
As you can see below , Your Webpage has been deployed successfully over the AWS cloud.
Task Completed !!!
Thank you .
