lightsail – Create or delete a virtual machine instance in AWS Lightsail

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lightsail – Create or delete a virtual machine instance in AWS Lightsail

New in version 2.4.


Synopsis

  • Creates or instances in AWS Lightsail and optionally wait for it to be ‘running’.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • boto
  • boto3
  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

aws_access_key

string

AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used.


aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key

aws_secret_key

string

AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used.


aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key

blueprint_id

-

ID of the instance blueprint image. Required when state='present'

bundle_id

-

Bundle of specification info for the instance. Required when state='present'

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs

boolean

added in 2.8

  • no

  • yes

Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.

ec2_url

string

Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.

key_pair_name

-

Name of the key pair to use with the instance

name

- / required

Name of the instance

profile

string

Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.

region

string

The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region


aliases: aws_region, ec2_region

security_token

string

AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used.


aliases: access_token

state

-

  • present

  • absent
  • running
  • restarted
  • stopped

Indicate desired state of the target.

user_data

-

Launch script that can configure the instance with additional data

validate_certs

boolean

  • no
  • yes

When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

wait

boolean

  • no
  • yes

Wait for the instance to be in state 'running' before returning. If wait is "no" an ip_address may not be returned

wait_timeout

-

Default:

300

How long before wait gives up, in seconds.

zone

-

AWS availability zone in which to launch the instance. Required when state='present'



Notes

Note

  • If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION
  • Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
  • AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file


Examples

# Create a new Lightsail instance, register the instance details
- lightsail:
    state: present
    name: myinstance
    region: us-east-1
    zone: us-east-1a
    blueprint_id: ubuntu_16_04
    bundle_id: nano_1_0
    key_pair_name: id_rsa
    user_data: " echo 'hello world' > /home/ubuntu/test.txt"
    wait_timeout: 500
  register: my_instance

- debug:
    msg: "Name is {{ my_instance.instance.name }}"

- debug:
    msg: "IP is {{ my_instance.instance.public_ip_address }}"

# Delete an instance if present
- lightsail:
    state: absent
    region: us-east-1
    name: myinstance

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description

changed

boolean

always

if a snapshot has been modified/created


Sample:

{'changed': True}

instance

dictionary

always

instance data


Sample:

{'arn': 'arn:aws:lightsail:us-east-1:448830907657:Instance/1fef0175-d6c8-480e-84fa-214f969cda87', 'blueprint_id': 'ubuntu_16_04', 'blueprint_name': 'Ubuntu', 'bundle_id': 'nano_1_0', 'created_at': '2017-03-27T08:38:59.714000-04:00', 'hardware': {'cpu_count': 1, 'ram_size_in_gb': 0.5}, 'is_static_ip': False, 'location': {'availability_zone': 'us-east-1a', 'region_name': 'us-east-1'}, 'name': 'my_instance', 'networking': {'monthly_transfer': {'gb_per_month_allocated': 1024}, 'ports': [{'access_direction': 'inbound', 'access_from': 'Anywhere (0.0.0.0/0)', 'access_type': 'public', 'common_name': , 'from_port': 80, 'protocol': 'tcp', 'to_port': 80}, {'access_direction': 'inbound', 'access_from': 'Anywhere (0.0.0.0/0)', 'access_type': 'public', 'common_name': , 'from_port': 22, 'protocol': 'tcp', 'to_port': 22}]}, 'private_ip_address': '172.26.8.14', 'public_ip_address': '34.207.152.202', 'resource_type': 'Instance', 'ssh_key_name': 'keypair', 'state': {'code': 16, 'name': 'running'}, 'support_code': '588307843083/i-0997c97831ee21e33', 'username': 'ubuntu'}




Status

Authors

  • Nick Ball (@nickball)

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