AmazonExample-playbook.yaml

---
- name: Example of making ansible connect to AWS
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: false  # collects facts about the local system

  vars_files:
          - ~/cred.zon

  tasks:
          - name: see information about s3 buckets
            aws_s3_bucket_info:
                    aws_access_key: "{{ ec2_access_key }}"
                    aws_secret_key: "{{ ec2_secret_key }}"
            register: result

          - name: List results of buckets
            debug:
               msg: "{{ result.buckets }}"

          - name: determine how many buckets
            debug:
               msg: "{{ result.buckets | length }}"

          - name: attempt to generate a unique name
            set_fact:
                    unique_name: "{{ lookup('password', '/dev/null length=13 chars=ascii_letters') }}"

          - name: see if our unique name printed out correctly
            debug:
                    var: unique_name

          - name: create a bucket if less than 2 exist
            s3_bucket:
                    name: "{{ unique_name.lower() }}"
                    state: present
                    aws_access_key: "{{ ec2_access_key }}"
                    aws_secret_key: "{{ ec2_secret_key }}"
            when: result.buckets | length < 2

               #          - name: ensure that 3 buckets always exist
               #            s3_bucket:
               #                name: mys3bucket
               #                state: present
                #            when: result.bucket | length < 3