ec2_ami_find - Searches for AMIs to obtain the AMI ID and other information¶

New in version 2.0.

DEPRECATED
Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
- Author

DEPRECATED ¶

Removed in Ansible:
	version: 2.9
Why:	Various AWS modules have been combined and replaced with ec2_ami_facts.
Alternative:	Use ec2_ami_facts instead.

Synopsis ¶

Returns list of matching AMIs with AMI ID, along with other useful information
Can search AMIs with different owners
Can search by matching tag(s), by AMI name and/or other criteria
Results can be sorted and sliced

Requirements ¶

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

boto
python >= 2.6

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
ami_id		An AMI ID to match.
ami_tags		A hash/dictionary of tags to match for the AMI.
architecture		An architecture type to match (e.g. x86_64).
aws_access_key		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. aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key		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. aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
ec2_url		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.
hypervisor		A hypervisor type type to match (e.g. xen).
is_public bool	Choices: no yes	Whether or not the image(s) are public.
name		An AMI name to match.
no_result_action	Choices: success ← fail	What to do when no results are found. 'success' reports success and returns an empty array 'fail' causes the module to report failure
owner		Search AMIs owned by the specified owner Can specify an AWS account ID, or one of the special IDs 'self', 'amazon' or 'aws-marketplace' If not specified, all EC2 AMIs in the specified region will be searched. You can include wildcards in many of the search options. An asterisk () matches zero or more characters, and a question mark (?) matches exactly one character. You can escape special characters using a backslash (\) before the character. For example, a value of \amazon\?\\ searches for the literal string *amazon?\.
platform		Platform type to match.
product_code (added in 2.3)		Marketplace product code to match.
profile (added in 1.6)		Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region required		The AWS region to use. aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
root_device_type (added in 2.5)		Root device type to match (e.g. ebs, instance-store).
security_token (added in 1.6)		AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used. aliases: access_token
sort	Choices: name description tag architecture block_device_mapping creationDate hypervisor is_public location owner_id platform root_device_name root_device_type state virtualization_type	Optional attribute which with to sort the results. If specifying 'tag', the 'tag_name' parameter is required. Starting at version 2.1, additional sort choices of architecture, block_device_mapping, creationDate, hypervisor, is_public, location, owner_id, platform, root_device_name, root_device_type, state, and virtualization_type are supported.
sort_end		Which result to end with (when sorting). Corresponds to Python slice notation.
sort_order	Choices: ascending ← descending	Order in which to sort results. Only used when the 'sort' parameter is specified.
sort_start		Which result to start with (when sorting). Corresponds to Python slice notation.
sort_tag		Tag name with which to sort results. Required when specifying 'sort=tag'.
state	Default: available	AMI state to match.
validate_certs bool (added in 1.5)	Choices: no yes ←	When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.
virtualization_type		Virtualization type to match (e.g. hvm).

Notes ¶

Note

This module is not backwards compatible with the previous version of the ec2_search_ami module which worked only for Ubuntu AMIs listed on cloud-images.ubuntu.com.
See the example below for a suggestion of how to search by distro/release.
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_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
Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

Examples ¶

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

# Search for the AMI tagged "project:website"
- ec2_ami_find:
    owner: self
    ami_tags:
      project: website
    no_result_action: fail
  register: ami_find

# Search for the latest Ubuntu 14.04 AMI
- ec2_ami_find:
    name: "ubuntu/images/ebs/ubuntu-trusty-14.04-amd64-server-*"
    owner: 099720109477
    sort: name
    sort_order: descending
    sort_end: 1
  register: ami_find

# Launch an EC2 instance
- ec2:
    image: "{{ ami_find.results[0].ami_id }}"
    instance_type: m3.medium
    key_name: mykey
    wait: yes

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
ami_id string	when AMI found	id of found amazon image Sample: ami-e9095e8c
architecture string	when AMI found	architecture of image Sample: x86_64
block_device_mapping dict	when AMI found	block device mapping associated with image Sample: { '/dev/xvda': { 'delete_on_termination': true, 'encrypted': false, 'size': 8, 'snapshot_id': 'snap-ca0330b8', 'volume_type': 'gp2' }
creationDate string	when AMI found	creation date of image Sample: 2015-10-15T22:43:44.000Z
description string	when AMI found	description of image Sample: test-server01
hypervisor string	when AMI found	type of hypervisor Sample: xen
is_public bool	when AMI found	whether image is public
location string	when AMI found	location of image Sample: 435210894375/test-server01-20151015-234343
name string	when AMI found	ami name of image Sample: test-server01-20151015-234343
owner_id string	when AMI found	owner of image Sample: 435210894375
platform string	when AMI found	platform of image
root_device_name string	when AMI found	root device name of image Sample: /dev/xvda
root_device_type string	when AMI found	root device type of image Sample: ebs
state string	when AMI found	state of image Sample: available
tags dict	when AMI found	tags assigned to image Sample: { 'Environment': 'devel', 'Name': 'test-server01', 'Role': 'web' }
virtualization_type string	when AMI found	image virtualization type Sample: hvm

Status ¶

This module is flagged as deprecated and will be removed in version 2.9. For more information see DEPRECATED.

Author ¶

Tom Bamford (@tombamford)

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