This role does not need to make any choices, it simply takes our host from the ec2_instances group and creates an image of it. To start, let's create the role:
$ ansible-galaxy init roles/ami
The role is made up of three tasks, one of which is a pause. First of all, in roles/ami/tasks/main.yml, we need to find out some information about the instance. We are using the ec2_instance_facts module:
- name: find out some facts about the instance we have been using ec2_instance_facts: region: "{{ ec2_region }}" filters: dns-name: "{{ groups['ec2_instance'][0] }}" register: "our_instance"
Now we know about the instance, we can create the AMI:
- name: create the AMI ec2_ami: region: "{{ ec2_region }}" instance_id: "{{ our_instance.instances.0.instance_id ...
