community.general.spotinst_aws_elastigroup – Create, update or delete Spotinst AWS Elastigroups

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• Can create, update, or delete Spotinst AWS Elastigroups Launch configuration is part of the elastigroup configuration, so no additional modules are necessary for handling the launch configuration. You will have to have a credentials file in this location - <home>/.spotinst/credentials The credentials file must contain a row that looks like this token = <YOUR TOKEN> Full documentation available at https://help.spotinst.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003530285-Ansible-

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.7
• spotinst_sdk >= 1.0.38

Parameters

Examples

# Basic configuration YAML example

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: Create elastigroup
      community.general.spotinst_aws_elastigroup:
          state: present
          risk: 100
          availability_vs_cost: balanced
          availability_zones:
            - name: us-west-2a
              subnet_id: subnet-2b68a15c
          image_id: ami-f173cc91
          key_pair: spotinst-oregon
          max_size: 15
          min_size: 0
          target: 0
          unit: instance
          monitoring: True
          name: ansible-group
          on_demand_instance_type: c3.large
          product: Linux/UNIX
          load_balancers:
            - test-lb-1
          security_group_ids:
            - sg-8f4b8fe9
          spot_instance_types:
            - c3.large
          do_not_update:
            - image_id
            - target
      register: result
    - ansible.builtin.debug: var=result

# In this example, we create an elastigroup and wait 600 seconds to retrieve the instances, and use their private ips

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: Create elastigroup
      community.general.spotinst_aws_elastigroup:
          state: present
          account_id: act-1a9dd2b
          risk: 100
          availability_vs_cost: balanced
          availability_zones:
            - name: us-west-2a
              subnet_id: subnet-2b68a15c
          tags:
            - Environment: someEnvValue
            - OtherTagKey: otherValue
          image_id: ami-f173cc91
          key_pair: spotinst-oregon
          max_size: 5
          min_size: 0
          target: 0
          unit: instance
          monitoring: True
          name: ansible-group-tal
          on_demand_instance_type: c3.large
          product: Linux/UNIX
          security_group_ids:
            - sg-8f4b8fe9
          block_device_mappings:
            - device_name: '/dev/sda1'
              ebs:
                volume_size: 100
                volume_type: gp2
          spot_instance_types:
            - c3.large
          do_not_update:
            - image_id
          wait_for_instances: True
          wait_timeout: 600
      register: result

    - name: Store private ips to file
      ansible.builtin.shell: echo {{ item.private_ip }}\n >> list-of-private-ips
      with_items: "{{ result.instances }}"
    - ansible.builtin.debug: var=result

# In this example, we create an elastigroup with multiple block device mappings, tags, and also an account id
# In organizations with more than one account, it is required to specify an account_id

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: Create elastigroup
      community.general.spotinst_aws_elastigroup:
          state: present
          account_id: act-1a9dd2b
          risk: 100
          availability_vs_cost: balanced
          availability_zones:
            - name: us-west-2a
              subnet_id: subnet-2b68a15c
          tags:
            - Environment: someEnvValue
            - OtherTagKey: otherValue
          image_id: ami-f173cc91
          key_pair: spotinst-oregon
          max_size: 5
          min_size: 0
          target: 0
          unit: instance
          monitoring: True
          name: ansible-group-tal
          on_demand_instance_type: c3.large
          product: Linux/UNIX
          security_group_ids:
            - sg-8f4b8fe9
          block_device_mappings:
            - device_name: '/dev/xvda'
              ebs:
                volume_size: 60
                volume_type: gp2
            - device_name: '/dev/xvdb'
              ebs:
                volume_size: 120
                volume_type: gp2
          spot_instance_types:
            - c3.large
          do_not_update:
            - image_id
          wait_for_instances: True
          wait_timeout: 600
      register: result

    - name: Store private ips to file
      ansible.builtin.shell: echo {{ item.private_ip }}\n >> list-of-private-ips
      with_items: "{{ result.instances }}"
    - ansible.builtin.debug: var=result

# In this example we have set up block device mapping with ephemeral devices

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: Create elastigroup
      community.general.spotinst_aws_elastigroup:
          state: present
          risk: 100
          availability_vs_cost: balanced
          availability_zones:
            - name: us-west-2a
              subnet_id: subnet-2b68a15c
          image_id: ami-f173cc91
          key_pair: spotinst-oregon
          max_size: 15
          min_size: 0
          target: 0
          unit: instance
          block_device_mappings:
            - device_name: '/dev/xvda'
              virtual_name: ephemeral0
            - device_name: '/dev/xvdb/'
              virtual_name: ephemeral1
          monitoring: True
          name: ansible-group
          on_demand_instance_type: c3.large
          product: Linux/UNIX
          load_balancers:
            - test-lb-1
          security_group_ids:
            - sg-8f4b8fe9
          spot_instance_types:
            - c3.large
          do_not_update:
            - image_id
            - target
      register: result
    - ansible.builtin.debug: var=result

# In this example we create a basic group configuration with a network interface defined.
# Each network interface must have a device index

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: Create elastigroup
      community.general.spotinst_aws_elastigroup:
          state: present
          risk: 100
          availability_vs_cost: balanced
          network_interfaces:
            - associate_public_ip_address: true
              device_index: 0
          availability_zones:
            - name: us-west-2a
              subnet_id: subnet-2b68a15c
          image_id: ami-f173cc91
          key_pair: spotinst-oregon
          max_size: 15
          min_size: 0
          target: 0
          unit: instance
          monitoring: True
          name: ansible-group
          on_demand_instance_type: c3.large
          product: Linux/UNIX
          load_balancers:
            - test-lb-1
          security_group_ids:
            - sg-8f4b8fe9
          spot_instance_types:
            - c3.large
          do_not_update:
            - image_id
            - target
      register: result
    - ansible.builtin.debug: var=result


# In this example we create a basic group configuration with a target tracking scaling policy defined

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: Create elastigroup
      community.general.spotinst_aws_elastigroup:
          account_id: act-92d45673
          state: present
          risk: 100
          availability_vs_cost: balanced
          availability_zones:
            - name: us-west-2a
              subnet_id: subnet-79da021e
          image_id: ami-f173cc91
          fallback_to_od: true
          tags:
            - Creator: ValueOfCreatorTag
            - Environment: ValueOfEnvironmentTag
          key_pair: spotinst-labs-oregon
          max_size: 10
          min_size: 0
          target: 2
          unit: instance
          monitoring: True
          name: ansible-group-1
          on_demand_instance_type: c3.large
          product: Linux/UNIX
          security_group_ids:
            - sg-46cdc13d
          spot_instance_types:
            - c3.large
          target_tracking_policies:
            - policy_name: target-tracking-1
              namespace: AWS/EC2
              metric_name: CPUUtilization
              statistic: average
              unit: percent
              target: 50
              cooldown: 120
          do_not_update:
            - image_id
      register: result
    - ansible.builtin.debug: var=result

Return Values

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

Authors

• Spotinst (@talzur)