Connect an EC2 instance to the target group using Ansible

Question

I worked with EC2 instances before ELB for a while using Ansible . But now I'm starting to use ALB , and I need to connect my instances to the Target Groups , which in turn are connected to ALB . Is there an Ansible plugin that allows me to register an instance with the AWS Target Group ?

Answer 1

Since Ansible does not support instance registration for target groups, I had to use the AWS-CLI tool. Using the following command, you can register an instance in the target group:

aws elbv2 register-targets --target-group-arn arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:us-east-1:your-target-group --targets Id=i-your-instance 

So, I just call this command from Ansible and it is done.

Answer 2

Use elb_target:

• name: collect facts for all new proxy instances
  ec2_instance_facts:
  filters:
  "tag: Name": "{{ec2_tag_proxy}}"
  register: ec2_proxy

• elb_target_group:
  name: uat-target-proxy
  protocol: http
  port: 80
  vpc_id: vpc-4e6e8112
  deregistration_delay_timeout: 60
  stickiness_enabled: True
  stickiness_lb_cookie_duration: 86400
  health_check_path: /
  success_response_codes: "200"
  health_check_interval: "20"
  state: present

• elb_target:
  target group name: uat-target-proxy
  target_id: "{{item.instance_id}}"
  target_port: 80
  state: present
  with_items: "{{ec2_proxy.instances}}"
  when: ec2_proxy.instances | length> 0

Answer 3

Try the following settings:

 - name: creating target group local_action: module: elb_target_group region: us-east-2 vpc_id: yourvpcid name: create-targetgrp-delete protocol: https port: 443 health_check_path: / successful_response_codes: "200,250-260" state: present targets: - Id: ec2isntanceid Port: 443 wait_timeout: 200 register: tgp