In two previous posts I showed how to use Ansible to configure an EC2 instance, after it was created. Even though that might be useful at times having a completely automated process that can be invoked directly from Cloudformation when the instance is being built could be even more useful.…
When creating new EC2 instances that require persistent EBS volumes there's a number of steps that have to be carried out before the disk can be used. This post shows how to automate them. Definitions of the tasks presented below are also in https://github.com/pshemk/ec2-base. Please note…
Sometimes there's a need to automatically setup the hostname of an EC2 instance. This post shows how to do it from 'outside' of the instance itself, using Ansible. Let's assume here that the instance already has a tag Name, that will be used as the hostname and the VPC uses…