Search for AWS EC2 AMI ID by Region - Ansible module ec2_ami_info — Video Tutorial

How to Search for EC2 AMI ID by AWS Region with Ansible? I'm going to show you a live Playbook and some simple Ansible code. I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot. Ansible Search for EC2 AMI ID by AWS Region - `amazon.aws.ec2_ami_info` - Gather information about ec2 AMIs Let's talk about the Ansible module `ec2_ami_info`. The full name is `amazon.aws.ec2_ami_info`, which means that is part of the collection of modules to interact with AWS. The module's purpose is to gather information about ec2 AMIs. Parameters - filters _dictionary_ - filter terms Example: ```yaml name: "RHEL-8.3.0_HVM-*-x86_64-*Hourly*" region: "us-east-1" ``` The following parameters are useful in order to Search for EC2 AMI ID by AWS Region using the module `ec2_ami_info`. The only parameter needed is the `filters` and specify the filters keys and values. For example, let's search for Red Hat Enterprise Linux machines version 8.3.0 running on HVM infrastructure, architecture x86_64 Hourly paid. Links - [`amazon.aws.ec2_ami_info`](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/amazon/aws/ec2_ami_info_module.html) Playbook How to Search for EC2 AMI ID by AWS Region with Ansible. I'm going to show you how to Gather Information on a specific "`RHEL-8.3.0_HVM`" AWS EC2 Hourly Machine for the region "us-east-1" and select the EC2 AMI ID using Ansible Playbook. code ```yaml --- - name: AMI search hosts: localhost become: false gather_facts: false vars: aws_region: "us-east-1" aws_name: "RHEL-8.3.0_HVM-*-x86_64-*Hourly*" tasks: - name: search for AMI amazon.aws.ec2_ami_info: filters: name: "{{ aws_name }}" region: "{{ aws_region }}" register: ami_found - name: print AMI ansible.builtin.debug: var: ami_found ``` execution ```bash $ ansible-playbook ami_search.yml [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all' PLAY [AMI search] ********************************************************************************* TASK [search for existing AMI] ******************************************************************** ok: [localhost] TASK [debug] ************************************************************************************** ok: [localhost] => { "ami_found": { "changed": false, "failed": false, "images": [ { "architecture": "x86_64", "block_device_mappings": [ { "device_name": "/dev/sda1", "ebs": { "delete_on_termination": true, "encrypted": false, "snapshot_id": "snap-03f2e24f30f580353", "volume_size": 10, "volume_type": "gp2" } } ],