ansible-ec2-snapshot

ec2 snapshot automation with Ansible and bash script

Installation

• Install Ansible on your AWS ec2 with pip install ansible
• Be sure your ec2 is running the latest version of bob pip install bobo3
• Clone this repo or upload these files in your user directory

Usage

Setup your ec2 Variables in the vars/ec2_env.yml file

device_name: # Instance Root Device (eg. /dev/sda)
name: # Your EC2 Instance Name
ec2_url: # Instance Region URL (eg. https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com)
ec2_region: # Instance Region (eg. us-east-1)

Update the ec2_snapshot.sh script to set if you want to add or delete a snapshot

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e"add_snapshot=true del_snapshot=false"

Create a CRON job to execut the script automatically

# Run the script once a month
0 0 1 * * ansible-ec2-snapshot/ec2_snapshot.sh