community.aws.ec2_asg_info module – Gather information about ec2 Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) in AWS

Note

This module is part of the community.aws collection (version 3.6.0).

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_asg_info.

New in community.aws 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Gather information about ec2 Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) in AWS

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.6

  • boto3 >= 1.16.0

  • botocore >= 1.19.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

aws_access_key

aliases: ec2_access_key, 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.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the aws_access_key and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

aws_ca_bundle

path

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

Not used by boto 2 based modules.

Note: The CA Bundle is read ‘module’ side and may need to be explicitly copied from the controller if not run locally.

aws_config

dictionary

A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.

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

Only the ‘user_agent’ key is used for boto modules. See http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html#boto for more boto configuration.

aws_secret_key

aliases: ec2_secret_key, 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.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the aws_secret_key and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

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

ec2_url

aliases: aws_endpoint_url, endpoint_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.

name

string

The prefix or name of the auto scaling group(s) you are searching for.

Note: This is a regular expression match with implicit ‘^’ (beginning of string). Append ‘$’ for a complete name match.

profile

aliases: aws_profile

string

Using profile will override aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token and support for passing them at the same time as profile has been deprecated.

aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token will be made mutually exclusive with profile after 2022-06-01.

region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_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

security_token

aliases: aws_session_token, session_token, aws_security_token, access_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.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the security_token and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

Aliases aws_session_token and session_token have been added in version 3.2.0.

tags

dictionary

A dictionary/hash of tags in the format { tag1_name: ‘tag1_value’, tag2_name: ‘tag2_value’ } to match against the auto scaling group(s) you are searching for.

validate_certs

boolean

When set to “no”, SSL certificates will not be validated for communication with the AWS APIs.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

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_PROFILE or AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE, 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, AWS_CA_BUNDLE

  • When no credentials are explicitly provided the AWS SDK (boto3) that Ansible uses will fall back to its configuration files (typically ~/.aws/credentials). See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/credentials.html for more information.

  • Modules based on the original AWS SDK (boto) may read their default configuration from different files. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html for more information.

  • AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be defined in the configuration files.

Examples

# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.

- name: Find all groups
  community.aws.ec2_asg_info:
  register: asgs

- name: Find a group with matching name/prefix
  community.aws.ec2_asg_info:
    name: public-webserver-asg
  register: asgs

- name: Find a group with matching tags
  community.aws.ec2_asg_info:
    tags:
      project: webapp
      env: production
  register: asgs

- name: Find a group with matching name/prefix and tags
  community.aws.ec2_asg_info:
    name: myproject
    tags:
      env: production
  register: asgs

- name: Fail if no groups are found
  community.aws.ec2_asg_info:
    name: public-webserver-asg
  register: asgs
  failed_when: "{{ asgs.results | length == 0 }}"

- name: Fail if more than 1 group is found
  community.aws.ec2_asg_info:
    name: public-webserver-asg
  register: asgs
  failed_when: "{{ asgs.results | length > 1 }}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

auto_scaling_group_arn

string

The Amazon Resource Name of the ASG

Returned: success

Sample: "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:1234567890:autoScalingGroup:10787c52-0bcb-427d-82ba-c8e4b008ed2e:autoScalingGroupName/public-webapp-production-1"

auto_scaling_group_name

string

Name of autoscaling group

Returned: success

Sample: "public-webapp-production-1"

availability_zones

list / elements=string

List of Availability Zones that are enabled for this ASG.

Returned: success

Sample: ["us-west-2a", "us-west-2b", "us-west-2a"]

created_time

string

The date and time this ASG was created, in ISO 8601 format.

Returned: success

Sample: "2015-11-25T00:05:36.309Z"

default_cooldown

integer

The default cooldown time in seconds.

Returned: success

Sample: 300

desired_capacity

integer

The number of EC2 instances that should be running in this group.

Returned: success

Sample: 3

health_check_period

integer

Length of time in seconds after a new EC2 instance comes into service that Auto Scaling starts checking its health.

Returned: success

Sample: 30

health_check_type

string

The service you want the health status from, one of “EC2” or “ELB”.

Returned: success

Sample: "ELB"

instances

list / elements=string

List of EC2 instances and their status as it relates to the ASG.

Returned: success

Sample: [{"availability_zone": "us-west-2a", "health_status": "Healthy", "instance_id": "i-es22ad25", "launch_configuration_name": "public-webapp-production-1", "lifecycle_state": "InService", "protected_from_scale_in": "false"}]

launch_config_name

string

Name of launch configuration associated with the ASG. Same as launch_configuration_name, provided for compatibility with ec2_asg module.

Returned: success

Sample: "public-webapp-production-1"

launch_configuration_name

string

Name of launch configuration associated with the ASG.

Returned: success

Sample: "public-webapp-production-1"

lifecycle_hooks

list / elements=string

List of lifecycle hooks for the ASG.

Returned: success

Sample: [{"AutoScalingGroupName": "public-webapp-production-1", "DefaultResult": "ABANDON", "GlobalTimeout": 172800, "HeartbeatTimeout": 3600, "LifecycleHookName": "instance-launch", "LifecycleTransition": "autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_LAUNCHING"}, {"AutoScalingGroupName": "public-webapp-production-1", "DefaultResult": "ABANDON", "GlobalTimeout": 172800, "HeartbeatTimeout": 3600, "LifecycleHookName": "instance-terminate", "LifecycleTransition": "autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_TERMINATING"}]

load_balancer_names

list / elements=string

List of load balancers names attached to the ASG.

Returned: success

Sample: ["elb-webapp-prod"]

max_size

integer

Maximum size of group

Returned: success

Sample: 3

min_size

integer

Minimum size of group

Returned: success

Sample: 1

new_instances_protected_from_scale_in

boolean

Whether or not new instances a protected from automatic scaling in.

Returned: success

Sample: false

placement_group

string

Placement group into which instances are launched, if any.

Returned: success

Sample: "None"

status

string

The current state of the group when DeleteAutoScalingGroup is in progress.

Returned: success

Sample: "None"

tags

list / elements=string

List of tags for the ASG, and whether or not each tag propagates to instances at launch.

Returned: success

Sample: [{"key": "Name", "propagate_at_launch": "true", "resource_id": "public-webapp-production-1", "resource_type": "auto-scaling-group", "value": "public-webapp-production-1"}, {"key": "env", "propagate_at_launch": "true", "resource_id": "public-webapp-production-1", "resource_type": "auto-scaling-group", "value": "production"}]

target_group_arns

list / elements=string

List of ARNs of the target groups that the ASG populates

Returned: success

Sample: ["arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:ap-southeast-2:123456789012:targetgroup/target-group-host-hello/1a2b3c4d5e6f1a2b", "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:ap-southeast-2:123456789012:targetgroup/target-group-path-world/abcd1234abcd1234"]

target_group_names

list / elements=string

List of names of the target groups that the ASG populates

Returned: success

Sample: ["target-group-host-hello", "target-group-path-world"]

termination_policies

string

A list of termination policies for the group.

Returned: success

Sample: "['Default']"

Authors

  • Rob White (@wimnat)