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ec2_windows_bootstrap.yml

---
  - name: Provision an EC2 Instance
    hosts: local
    connection: local
    gather_facts: False
    tags: provisioning
    # Necessary Variables for creating/provisioning the EC2 Instance
    vars:
      instance_type: t2.small
      group_id: ['sg-xxx','sg-xxx']
      region: ap-southeast-2 # Change the Region
      keypair: aws-keypair # Change the keypair name
      vpc_subnet_id: subnet-xxx
      instance_profile_name: test-servers #IAM role name - make sure it exists
      count: 1
      #content of https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1
      #saved as init_ansible.ps1
      user_data: "{{lookup('file','init_ansible.ps1')}}"

    # Task that will be used to Launch/Create an EC2 Instance
    tasks:
      - name: find current Windows AMI in this region
        ec2_ami_find:
          region: "{{ region }}"
          platform: windows
          virtualization_type: hvm
          owner: amazon
          name: Windows_Server-2012-R2_RTM-English-64Bit-SQL_2014_SP1_Express*
          no_result_action: fail
          sort: name
          sort_order: descending
        register: found_amis
      - set_fact:
          win_ami_id: "{{ (found_amis.results | first).ami_id  }}"
      - name: Launch the new EC2 Instance
        ec2:
                      group_id: "{{ group_id }}"
                      instance_type: "{{ instance_type }}" 
                      image: "{{ win_ami_id }}" 
                      wait: true 
                      region: "{{ region }}"
                      key_name: "{{ keypair }}"
                      vpc_subnet_id: "{{ vpc_subnet_id }}"
                      instance_profile_name: "{{ instance_profile_name }}"
                      count: "{{ count }}"
                      user_data: "{{ user_data }}"
        register: ec2

      - name: Add the newly created EC2 instance(s) to the local host group (located inside the directory)
        lineinfile: dest="./hosts" 
                      regexp={{ item.private_ip }} 
                      insertafter="[windows]" line={{ item.private_ip }}
        with_items: "{{ec2.instances}}"
      - name: get the Administrator password
        ec2_win_password:
          instance_id: "{{ item.id }}"
          region: "{{ region }}"
          key_file: "~/.aws/aws-keypair.pem"
          wait: yes
          wait_timeout: 600
        with_items: "{{ec2.instances}}"
        register: instance_password
      - name: Add the new instance password to the variables.
        replace: dest="./group_vars/windows.yml" 
                   regexp="ec2_dynamic_password"
                   replace={{ (instance_password.results | first).win_password }}
      - name: Wait for winrm to come up
        local_action: wait_for 
                      host={{ item.private_ip }} 
                      port=5986 
                      state=started
        with_items: "{{ ec2.instances }}"

      - name: Add tag to Instance(s)
        local_action: ec2_tag resource={{ item.id }} region={{ region }} state=present
        with_items: "{{ ec2.instances }}"
        args:
          tags:
            Name: ansible-ec2-auto
      - meta: refresh_inventory
  - name: install support applications
    hosts: windows
    gather_facts: False
    tasks:
    - set_fact: 
        ansible_password: "{{ (hostvars['localhost']['instance_password'].results | first).win_password }}"
    - pause: minutes=2
    - name: install 7zip
      win_chocolatey:
        name: 7zip
    - name: install notepad++
      win_chocolatey:
        name: notepadplusplus.install
      register: results
    - debug: var=results

hosts

[local]
localhost

[windows]

windows.yml

#./group_vars/windows.yml
ansible_user: Administrator
ansible_password: "ec2_dynamic_password"
ansible_port: 5986
ansible_connection: winrm
# The following is necessary for Python 2.7.9+ when using default WinRM self-signed certificates:
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore