community.aws.ec2_launch_template module – Manage EC2 launch templates

Note

This module is part of the community.aws collection (version 8.0.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.aws. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.aws.ec2_launch_template.

New in community.aws 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Create, modify, and delete EC2 Launch Templates, which can be used to create individual instances or with Autoscaling Groups.

  • The amazon.aws.ec2_instance and community.aws.autoscaling_group modules can, instead of specifying all parameters on those tasks, be passed a Launch Template which contains settings like instance size, disk type, subnet, and more.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.6

  • boto3 >= 1.26.0

  • botocore >= 1.29.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

access_key

aliases: aws_access_key_id, aws_access_key, ec2_access_key

string

AWS access key ID.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference.

The aws_access_key and profile options are mutually exclusive.

The aws_access_key_id alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with the AWS botocore SDK.

The ec2_access_key alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

aws_ca_bundle

path

The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates.

The AWS_CA_BUNDLE environment variable may also be used.

aws_config

dictionary

A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.

Parameters can be found in the AWS documentation https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config.

block_device_mappings

list / elements=dictionary

The block device mapping. Supplying both a snapshot ID and an encryption value as arguments for block-device mapping results in an error. This is because only blank volumes can be encrypted on start, and these are not created from a snapshot. If a snapshot is the basis for the volume, it contains data by definition and its encryption status cannot be changed using this action.

device_name

string

The device name (for example, /dev/sdh or xvdh).

ebs

dictionary

Parameters used to automatically set up EBS volumes when the instance is launched.

delete_on_termination

boolean

Indicates whether the EBS volume is deleted on instance termination.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

encrypted

boolean

Indicates whether the EBS volume is encrypted. Encrypted volumes can only be attached to instances that support Amazon EBS encryption. If you are creating a volume from a snapshot, you can’t specify an encryption value.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

iops

integer

The number of I/O operations per second (IOPS) that the volume supports. For io1, this represents the number of IOPS that are provisioned for the volume. For gp2, this represents the baseline performance of the volume and the rate at which the volume accumulates I/O credits for bursting. For more information about General Purpose SSD baseline performance, I/O credits, and bursting, see Amazon EBS Volume Types in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Condition: This parameter is required for requests to create io1 volumes; it is not used in requests to create gp2, st1, sc1, or standard volumes.

kms_key_id

string

The ARN of the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) CMK used for encryption.

snapshot_id

string

The ID of the snapshot to create the volume from.

volume_size

integer

The size of the volume, in GiB.

Default: If you’re creating the volume from a snapshot and don’t specify a volume size, the default is the snapshot size.

volume_type

string

The volume type

no_device

string

Suppresses the specified device included in the block device mapping of the AMI.

virtual_name

string

The virtual device name (ephemeralN). Instance store volumes are numbered starting from 0. An instance type with 2 available instance store volumes can specify mappings for ephemeral0 and ephemeral1. The number of available instance store volumes depends on the instance type. After you connect to the instance, you must mount the volume.

cpu_options

dictionary

Choose CPU settings for the EC2 instances that will be created with this template.

For more information, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-optimize-cpu.html

core_count

integer

The number of CPU cores for the instance.

threads_per_core

integer

The number of threads per CPU core. To disable Intel Hyper-Threading Technology for the instance, specify a value of 1. Otherwise, specify the default value of 2.

credit_specification

dictionary

The credit option for CPU usage of the instance. Valid for T2 or T3 instances only.

cpu_credits

string

The credit option for CPU usage of a T2 or T3 instance. Valid values are standard and unlimited.

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs

boolean

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.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

default_version

string

Which version should be the default when users spin up new instances based on this template? By default, the latest version will be made the default.

Default: "latest"

disable_api_termination

boolean

This helps protect instances from accidental termination. If set to true, you can’t terminate the instance using the Amazon EC2 console, CLI, or API. To change this attribute to false after launch, use ModifyInstanceAttribute.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

ebs_optimized

boolean

Indicates whether the instance is optimized for Amazon EBS I/O. This optimization provides dedicated throughput to Amazon EBS and an optimized configuration stack to provide optimal Amazon EBS I/O performance. This optimization isn’t available with all instance types. Additional usage charges apply when using an EBS-optimized instance.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

elastic_gpu_specifications

list / elements=dictionary

Settings for Elastic GPU attachments. See https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/elastic-gpus/ for details.

type

string

The type of Elastic GPU to attach

endpoint_url

aliases: ec2_url, aws_endpoint_url, s3_url

string

URL to connect to instead of the default AWS endpoints. While this can be used to connection to other AWS-compatible services the amazon.aws and community.aws collections are only tested against AWS.

The AWS_URL or EC2_URL environment variables may also be used, in decreasing order of preference.

The ec2_url and s3_url aliases have been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_URL environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

iam_instance_profile

string

The name or ARN of an IAM instance profile. Requires permissions to describe existing instance roles to confirm ARN is properly formed.

image_id

string

The AMI ID to use for new instances launched with this template. This value is region-dependent since AMIs are not global resources.

instance_initiated_shutdown_behavior

string

Indicates whether an instance stops or terminates when you initiate shutdown from the instance using the operating system shutdown command.

Choices:

  • "stop"

  • "terminate"

instance_market_options

dictionary

Options for alternative instance markets, currently only the spot market is supported.

market_type

string

The market type. This should always be ‘spot’.

spot_options

dictionary

Spot-market specific settings.

block_duration_minutes

integer

The required duration for the Spot Instances (also known as Spot blocks), in minutes. This value must be a multiple of 60 (60, 120, 180, 240, 300, or 360).

instance_interruption_behavior

string

The behavior when a Spot Instance is interrupted. The default is terminate.

Choices:

  • "hibernate"

  • "stop"

  • "terminate"

max_price

string

The highest hourly price you’re willing to pay for this Spot Instance.

spot_instance_type

string

The request type to send.

Choices:

  • "one-time"

  • "persistent"

instance_type

string

The instance type, such as c5.2xlarge. For a full list of instance types, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-types.html.

kernel_id

string

The ID of the kernel. We recommend that you use PV-GRUB instead of kernels and RAM disks. For more information, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/UserProvidedkernels.html

key_name

string

The name of the key pair. You can create a key pair using amazon.aws.ec2_key.

If you do not specify a key pair, you can’t connect to the instance unless you choose an AMI that is configured to allow users another way to log in.

metadata_options

dictionary

added in community.aws 1.5.0

Configure EC2 Metadata options.

For more information see the IMDS documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service.html.

http_endpoint

string

This parameter enables or disables the HTTP metadata endpoint on your instances.

Choices:

  • "enabled" ← (default)

  • "disabled"

http_protocol_ipv6

string

added in community.aws 3.1.0

  • Wether the instance metadata endpoint is available via IPv6 (enabled) or not (disabled).

Choices:

  • "enabled"

  • "disabled" ← (default)

http_put_response_hop_limit

integer

The desired HTTP PUT response hop limit for instance metadata requests. The larger the number, the further instance metadata requests can travel.

Default: 1

http_tokens

string

The state of token usage for your instance metadata requests.

Choices:

  • "optional" ← (default)

  • "required"

instance_metadata_tags

string

added in community.aws 3.1.0

Wether the instance tags are availble (enabled) via metadata endpoint or not (disabled).

Choices:

  • "enabled"

  • "disabled" ← (default)

monitoring

dictionary

Settings for instance monitoring.

enabled

boolean

Whether to turn on detailed monitoring for new instances. This will incur extra charges.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

network_interfaces

list / elements=dictionary

One or more network interfaces.

associate_public_ip_address

boolean

Associates a public IPv4 address with eth0 for a new network interface.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

delete_on_termination

boolean

Indicates whether the network interface is deleted when the instance is terminated.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

description

string

A description for the network interface.

device_index

integer

The device index for the network interface attachment.

groups

list / elements=string

List of security group IDs to include on this instance.

ipv6_address_count

integer

The number of IPv6 addresses to assign to a network interface. Amazon EC2 automatically selects the IPv6 addresses from the subnet range. You can’t use this option if specifying the ipv6_addresses option.

ipv6_addresses

list / elements=string

A list of one or more specific IPv6 addresses from the IPv6 CIDR block range of your subnet. You can’t use this option if you’re specifying the ipv6_address_count option.

network_interface_id

string

The eni ID of a network interface to attach.

private_ip_address

string

The primary private IPv4 address of the network interface.

subnet_id

string

The ID of the subnet for the network interface.

placement

dictionary

The placement group settings for the instance.

affinity

string

The affinity setting for an instance on a Dedicated Host.

availability_zone

string

The Availability Zone for the instance.

group_name

string

The name of the placement group for the instance.

host_id

string

The ID of the Dedicated Host for the instance.

tenancy

string

The tenancy of the instance (if the instance is running in a VPC). An instance with a tenancy of dedicated runs on single-tenant hardware.

profile

aliases: aws_profile

string

A named AWS profile to use for authentication.

See the AWS documentation for more information about named profiles https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html.

The AWS_PROFILE environment variable may also be used.

The profile option is mutually exclusive with the aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token options.

ram_disk_id

string

The ID of the RAM disk to launch the instance with. We recommend that you use PV-GRUB instead of kernels and RAM disks. For more information, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/UserProvidedkernels.html

region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region

string

The AWS region to use.

For global services such as IAM, Route53 and CloudFront, region is ignored.

The AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variables may also be used.

See the Amazon AWS documentation for more information http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region.

The ec2_region alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01

Support for the EC2_REGION environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

secret_key

aliases: aws_secret_access_key, aws_secret_key, ec2_secret_key

string

AWS secret access key.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference.

The secret_key and profile options are mutually exclusive.

The aws_secret_access_key alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with the AWS botocore SDK.

The ec2_secret_key alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

security_group_ids

list / elements=string

A list of security group IDs (VPC or EC2-Classic) that the new instances will be added to.

security_groups

list / elements=string

A list of security group names (Default VPC or EC2-Classic) that the new instances will be added to. For any VPC other than Default, you must use security_group_ids.

session_token

aliases: aws_session_token, security_token, aws_security_token, access_token

string

AWS STS session token for use with temporary credentials.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference.

The security_token and profile options are mutually exclusive.

Aliases aws_session_token and session_token were added in release 3.2.0, with the parameter being renamed from security_token to session_token in release 6.0.0.

The security_token, aws_security_token, and access_token aliases have been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_SECRET_KEY and AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variables has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

source_version

string

added in community.aws 4.1.0

The version number of the launch template version on which to base the new version. The new version inherits the same launch parameters as the source version, except for parameters that you explicity specify. Snapshots applied to the block device mapping are ignored when creating a new version unless they are explicitly included.

Default: "latest"

state

string

Whether the launch template should exist or not.

Deleting specific versions of a launch template is not supported at this time.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

tags

aliases: resource_tags

dictionary

A set of key-value pairs to be applied to resources when this Launch Template is used.

Tag key constraints: Tag keys are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 127 Unicode characters. May not begin with aws:

Tag value constraints: Tag values are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 255 Unicode characters.

template_id

aliases: id

string

The ID for the launch template, can be used for all cases except creating a new Launch Template.

template_name

aliases: name

string

The template name. This must be unique in the region-account combination you are using.

If no launch template exists with the specified name, a new launch template is created.

If a launch template with the specified name already exists and the configuration has not changed, nothing happens.

If a launch template with the specified name already exists and the configuration has changed, a new version of the launch template is created.

user_data

string

The Base64-encoded user data to make available to the instance. For more information, see the Linux http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-data.html and Windows http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html#instancedata-add-user-data documentation on user-data.

validate_certs

boolean

When set to false, SSL certificates will not be validated for communication with the AWS APIs.

Setting validate_certs=false is strongly discouraged, as an alternative, consider setting aws_ca_bundle instead.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

version_description

string

added in community.aws 5.5.0

The description of a launch template version.

Default: ""

Notes

Note

  • Caution: For modules, environment variables and configuration files are read from the Ansible ‘host’ context and not the ‘controller’ context. As such, files may need to be explicitly copied to the ‘host’. For lookup and connection plugins, environment variables and configuration files are read from the Ansible ‘controller’ context and not the ‘host’ context.

  • The AWS SDK (boto3) that Ansible uses may also read defaults for credentials and other settings, such as the region, from its configuration files in the Ansible ‘host’ context (typically ~/.aws/credentials). See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/credentials.html for more information.

Examples

- name: Create an ec2 launch template
  community.aws.ec2_launch_template:
    name: "my_template"
    image_id: "ami-04b762b4289fba92b"
    key_name: my_ssh_key
    instance_type: t2.micro
    iam_instance_profile: myTestProfile
    disable_api_termination: true

- name: >
    Create a new version of an existing ec2 launch template with a different instance type,
    while leaving an older version as the default version
  community.aws.ec2_launch_template:
    name: "my_template"
    default_version: 1
    instance_type: c5.4xlarge

- name: Delete an ec2 launch template
  community.aws.ec2_launch_template:
    name: "my_template"
    state: absent

# This module does not yet allow deletion of specific versions of launch templates

Return Values

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

Key

Description

default_version

integer

The version that will be used if only the template name is specified. Often this is the same as the latest version, but not always.

Returned: when state=present

latest_version

integer

Latest available version of the launch template

Returned: when state=present

Authors

  • Ryan Scott Brown (@ryansb)