Deploy to AWS

The Ansible development environment in AWS will comprise the following:

• A Virtual Private Cloud(VPC)
• A subnet
• An internet gateway
• A route for public traffic into the VPC
• Windows EC2 instance with Windows Server 2019 Amazon Machine Image(AMI)
• Linux EC2 instance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Amazon Machine Image(AMI)

Free Tier

Both the AMIs used are within the free tier.

Ansible Modules

The following Ansible Modules can be used to deploy the resources on AWS using Ansible playbooks:

AWS Resource	Ansible Module
VPC	ec2_vpc_net
Subnet	ec2_vpc_subnet
Internet Gateway	ec2_vpc_igw
Route Table	ec2_vpc_route_table
Security Group	ec2_group
Key Pair	ec2_key
EC2 Instance	ec2
Elastic IP Address	ec2_eip

Ansible codifies your infrastructure in YAML files called Ansible playbooks. You will use pre-written Ansible playbooks to deploy the Ansible development environment to AWS.

Resource Dependency
Several of the AWS resources depend on other resources. These dependencies mean that you have to run the playbooks in the right order.

Let’s start exploring the playbooks we will cover in this lesson one by one:

Create a VPC

Before you can deploy an Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) instance, you have to provision a VPC. You will provision a VPC with a subnet, an internet gateway, and a route table entry for public traffic. Review the aws_create_vpc.yaml playbook below: