Sample Ansible Playbook listing EC2 t2.micro instances

test_ec2.yml

---
# Source: https://gist.github.com/romainx/681f9ea6a96ebe79ea970289cae1a59f
- name: List EC2 instances
  hosts: localhost
  # To run the playbook locally
  # http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_delegation.html#local-playbooks
  connection: local
  # There is no need to gather facts here
  gather_facts: false
  vars:
    # To tell ansible to use the Python env just created, if not set the default interpreter will be used
    # Ref.: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41774695/ansible-ec2-boto-required-for-this-module
    - ansible_python_interpreter: "/Users/xxxx/anaconda/envs/aws/bin/python"
    - instance_type: "t2.micro"
  tasks:
    - name: "List EC2 {{ instance_type }} instances"
      ec2_instance_facts:
        aws_access_key: "AXXX"
        aws_secret_key: "XXX"
        region: "eu-west-1"
        filters:
          instance-type: "{{ instance_type }}"
      register: ec2
    - name: Print EC2 instances
      debug:
        var: ec2.instances