AWS Infrastructure Creation with Ansible Part-2

In the second part of this series of tutorials, we’ll create the Security Group and EC2 Key Pair using Ansible. If you didn’t create the VPC already, then please check the Part-1 of this series.

If you have completed the Part-1, then you have already clone the git repo that contains all the roles, if not then clone the git repo:

git clone https://github.com/arbabnazar/ansible-aws-roles.git
cd ansible-aws-roles

AWS Infrastructure Creation with Ansible Part-1

In this series of posts, we’ll create the Infrastructure over AWS using Ansible. For the first part of this series, we’ll create the VPC, the basic building block, because everything like Security Group, EC2 instance, RDS Instance, ELB etc will create inside the VPC.

Requirement to use these roles:

- Ansible v2.0
- boto
- AWS admin access

Specifically, these are the versions of mentioned software that I am using for this series:

AWSCli Installation & Configuration using Ansible

In this blog post, we’ll learn that how we can use simple Ansible role to install the AWS CLI with all the required dependencies on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, it should work on other versions of Ubuntu too.

First, clone this Repository from the GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/arbabnazar/ansible-roles.git

Note: If git is not installed then you can simply download the zip file.

To use this role, edit the site.yml file:

vi site.yml

Install OpenVPN server using Ansible over AWS VPC

In this tutorial, we’ll use this blog post as a base and use the below scenario in which we’ll configure the custom NAT instance to OpenVPN as well using Ansible to access the resources inside the private subnet(s).

Please modify the following things for the above mentioned post:

– Open the UDP port 1194 inside the NAT instance Security Group

– Allow the desired traffic inside the desired desination server(s) Security Group for NAT instance

Highly-Available WordPress Installation inside AWS VPC using Ansible

In this post,we’ll learn that how we can do Highly-Available WordPress Installation inside AWS VPC using Ansible, for this purpose we’ll be using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS EC2 Instances but you can modify it easily for RPM-based systems. If you don’t know about the Ansible, please check this link.

The purpose of Ansible AWS VPC Highly-Available WordPress(AAVHAW) is to create a fully operational AWS VPC infrastructure(subnets,routeing tables,igw etc), it will also create everything that need to be for creating EC2 and RDS instances (security key, security group, subnet group).

It will also create the Elastic Load Balancer and add the EC2 instance(s) automatically that were created using this playbook as well as creating the Route53 entry for this wordpress site and add the ELB alias to it.

Beside that, this playbook will also run the essential role(updating and patching the OS, configuring NTP,creating users etc) and deploy the wordpress on them, that will be fault tolerant and highly available.

NOTE: The part of the play, ‘webserver.yml‘, is not idempotent. Every time it run, will create a new EC2 instances.

Installing the VNC server on Ubuntu using Ansible

In this post,we’ll learn that how we can install the VNC server on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS using Ansible. If you don’t know about Ansible, please check this link.

If you want manual step by step procedure to install the VNC server on Ubuntu, please refer this post.

First, download this Repository from the GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/arbabnazar/ansible-roles.git

Note: If git is not installed then you can simply download the zip file.

Installing the WordPress on Ubuntu using Ansible

In this post,we’ll learn that how we can install the WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS using Ansible. If you don’t know about Ansible, please check this link.

If you want manual step by step procedure to install the WordPress on Ubuntu, please refer this post.

Note: This role depends on LEMP Stack role, it will automatically install the LEMP Stack before installing the WordPress.

First, download this Repository from the GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/arbabnazar/ansible-roles.git

Note: If git is not installed then you can simply download the zip file.

Installing the Samba server on Ubuntu using Ansible

In this post,we’ll learn that how we can install the Samba server on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS using Ansible. If you don’t know about Ansible, please check this link.

If you want manual step by step procedure to install the Samba server on Ubuntu, please refer this post.

First, download this Repository from the GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/arbabnazar/ansible-roles.git

Note: If git is not installed then you can simply download the zip file.

Installing the LEMP Stack on Ubuntu using Ansible

In this post,we’ll learn that how we can install the latest LEMP (Nginx, MySQL & PHP) Stack and it’s initial configuration on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS using Ansible. If you don’t know about Ansible, please check this link.

If you want the manual procedure to install the LEMP stack, please refer this link.

First, download this Repository from the GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/arbabnazar/ansible-roles.git

Note: If git is not installed then you can simply download the zip file.

Provision & Configure EC2 instance with Vagrant and Ansible

In this Simple tutorial, I’ll show you that how you can use the Vagrant with Ansible to provision and configure the EC2 instance on AWS. I am assuming that you already have Vagrant installed and have an AWS account(and know how to use both).

First you need to install the Vagrant AWS plugin:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws

After installing the plugin, add dummy AWS box:

vagrant box add aws https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws/raw/master/dummy.box