Ansible Playbooks:

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workstation-setup: Creates a standard Workstation setup

Ansible roles:

• common: general setup (installs vim, chrome, git, setups up bashrc, etc)
• developer: additional setup if android development is needed
• aws_ec2_start
• aws_ec2_stop
• aws_ec2_gather_info

Run playbook:

ansible-playbook -i virtualbox.yml site.yml --ask-become-pass
ansible-playbook -i virtualbox.yml site.yml --skip-tags "developer" --ask-become-pass
ansible-playbook -i virtualbox.yml site.yml --skip-tags "developer" --ask-become-pass --syntax-check
ansible-playbook -i virtualbox.yml site.yml --skip-tags "developer" --ask-become-pass --check --diff
ansible-playbook -i virtualbox.yml site.yml --skip-tags "developer" --ask-become-pass --list-hosts
ansible-playbook -i virtualbox.yml site.yml --limit workstation_01 --tags "common, developer" --ask-become-pass
ansible-playbook -i virtualbox.yml -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --tags "common" --ask-become-pass
ansible-playbook -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --tags "common"
ansible-playbook -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --tags "aws_ec2_instance_start"

Run ansible-inventory:

ansible-inventory -i virtualbox.yml --graph
ansible-inventory -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml --graph

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aws-instances: start/stop instances using dynamic inventory

Instance roles:

• aws_ec2_instance_provision:
• aws_ec2_instance_info:
• aws_ec2_instance_start:
• aws_ec2_instance_stop:
• aws_ec2_instance_terminate:

Security Group roles:

• aws_ec2_group_info

Run playbook:

ansible-playbook -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --tags="aws_ec2_instance_provision"
ansible-playbook -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --tags="aws_ec2_instance_info"
ansible-playbook -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --tags="aws_ec2_instance_start"
ansible-playbook -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --tags="aws_ec2_instance_stop"
ansible-playbook -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --tags="aws_ec2_instance_terminate"

ansible-playbook -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --tags="aws_ec2_group_info"
ansible-playbook -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --tags="aws_ec2_group_provision"
ansible-playbook -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --tags="aws_ec2_group_terminate"                                           # <-- This role prompts user for
                                                                                                                              #     'Security Group ID'
ansible-playbook -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml site.yml --extra-vars="aws_ec2_group_id=sg-abc123" --tags="aws_ec2_group_terminate" # <-- No user prompt

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misc ad-hoc ansible

Run ansible ad-hoc examples:

ansible -i workstations -m ping all                            # Ping all hosts
ansible -i workstations -m setup all -a 'filter=ansible_*'     # list host facts 
ansible -i workstations -m command all -a "cat /proc/version"  # get hosts kernel version