aries-zhang / ansible-code-test

Ansible code test

Before run

Configurations needed on the control machine.

• Install Ansible

  • Guide for Ubuntu
  • Guide for macOS

• Install boto3

  sudo pip install boto boto3

  For macOS, you need to sudo pip install boto3 --ignore-installed six

  If python or pip was not installed on the control machine:

  sudo apt install python python-pip

• Environment variables

  Ansible ec2 module uses the following environment variables if aws_access_key and aws_secret_key are not specified in the script.

  export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_aws_access_key_id
  export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_aws_secret_access_key
  

Run

./main.sh

Issues

• Regarding to step 9 - "Log the resource usage of the container every 10 seconds", it seems Ansible does not support real-time output according to this github issue. It was posted 4 years ago though, other later discussions on stackoverflow like this conform to that, so alternatively the loop could be done in a shell script and call the Ansible playbook every ten seconds. Please refer to main.sh for more details about this approach.