In order to use CodeDeploy, the EC2 instances need to be running the CodeDeploy agent. This is normally done by downloading an executable from an S3 bucket, which varies depending on the region your instances are running in. Conveniently, AWS has also released a custom Ansible library, which can automate these steps. Because that library isn't a part of the standard Ansible library, we first need to add it to our Ansible repository.
Creating new web servers for continuous deployment
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