Ansible notes

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Change location of hosts file

• create your own ansible.cfg

  [defaults]  
  inventory = /path/to/hosts
  

Ping all hosts

ansible all -m ping --private-key private.pem -u ec2-user

EC2

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/ec2.py  
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/ec2.ini  

• create boto config with AWS keys

  [Credentials]  
  aws_access_key_id = <here>  
  aws_secret_access_key = <here>  
  

  ansible -i ec2.py -u ec2-user <region> -m ping --private-key private.pem
  

Restart machine

ansible -i ec2.py -u ec2-user <region> -a "/sbin/reboot" -f 10 --sudo --private-key private.pem