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ec2_ami_search - Retrieve AWS AMI information for a given operating system.¶

New in version 1.6.

DEPRECATED
Synopsis
Options
Examples

DEPRECATED ¶

Use ec2_ami_find instead.

Synopsis ¶

Look up the most recent AMI on AWS for a given operating system.
Returns ami, aki, ari, serial, tag
If there is no AKI or ARI associated with an image, these will be null.
Only supports images from cloud-images.ubuntu.com
Example output: {"ami": "ami-69f5a900", "changed": false, "aki": "aki-88aa75e1", "tag": "release", "ari": null, "serial": "20131024"}

Options ¶

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
arch	no	amd64	i386 amd64	CPU architecture
distro	yes		ubuntu	Linux distribution (e.g., `ubuntu`)
region	no	us-east-1	ap-northeast-1 ap-southeast-1 ap-northeast-2 ap-southeast-2 ca-central-1 eu-central-1 eu-west-1 eu-west-2 sa-east-1 us-east-1 us-east-2 us-west-1 us-west-2 us-gov-west-1	EC2 region
release	yes			short name of the release (e.g., `precise`)
store	no	ebs	ebs ebs-io1 ebs-ssd instance-store	Back-end store for instance
stream	no	server	server desktop	Type of release.
virt	no	paravirtual	paravirtual hvm	virutalization type

Examples ¶

- name: Launch an Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) EC2 instance
  hosts: 127.0.0.1
  connection: local
  tasks:
  - name: Get the Ubuntu precise AMI
    ec2_ami_search:
      distro: ubuntu
      release: precise
      region: us-west-1
      store: instance-store
    register: ubuntu_image

  - name: Start the EC2 instance
    ec2:
      image: "{{ ubuntu_image.ami }}"
      instance_type: m1.small
      key_name: mykey

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