Let's start by creating the file structure for the role by running:
$ ansible-galaxy init roles/rds
Now that's in place, let's discuss what we need to do to launch the RDS instance. To start with, we need to define some default values; add the following to the roles/rds/defaults/main.yml file:
rds: db_username: "{{ environment_name }}" db_password: "{{ lookup('password', 'group_vars/rds_passwordfile chars=ascii_letters,digits length=30') }}" db_name: "{{ environment_name }}" app_instance_type: "db.t2.micro" engine: "mariadb" hdd_size: "5" no_of_backups: "7" multi_az: "yes" wait: "yes" wait_time: "1200"
Some of the variables are self-explanatory, such as db_username, db_password, and db_name, although, as you can see, we are doing ...
