- name: Create test AMI's (this might take some time) hosts: localhost connection: local gather_facts: True vars: aws_profile: aws-ansible tasks: - name: Register the AWS_REGION environment variable. set_fact: aws_region_env_var: "{{ lookup('env', 'AWS_REGION') }}" register: aws_region_env_var - name: Fail if the AWS_REGION environment var is not set fail: msg: "The AWS_REGION environment variable is not set" when: not aws_region_env_var - name: Create ec2 instance to create AMI's from ec2_instance: profile: "{{ aws_profile }}" state: present name: "ansible-test-instance" image_id: ami-ca0135b3 volumes: - device_name: "/dev/sdb" ebs: volume_size: 8 network: assign_public_ip: false tags: MakeImage: 'true' register: test_instance - name: Create AMI's from instance ec2_ami: profile: "{{ aws_profile }}" state: present name: "AMI-00{{ item }}" instance_id: "{{ test_instance.instance_ids[0] }}" wait: yes with_sequence: start=1 end=3 - name: Cleanup temp instance ec2_instance: profile: "{{ aws_profile }}" state: terminated filters: instance-id: "{{ test_instance.instance_ids[0] }}"