1. Install ansible

Ansible and its dependnecies can be installed with the default (all) make target:

make

Once it is installed activate the virtual environment

source .venv/bin/activate

2. Create config file

Copy the example.config.yml file to config.yml and replace all values.

cp example.config.yml config.yml

3. Provision all EC2 instances

ansible-playbook main.yaml --diff --limit localhost

4. Verify public keys

The script ./setup_known_hosts.sh will extract the public keys from the instance serial console into a file called known_hosts. It does however take a few minutes before the output is available. The output should look similar to the following (shortened for brevity):

$ ./setup_known_hosts.sh
i-05f8a3105d0e6de28: Trying to extract SSH keys from console output
ec2-13-48-190-57.eu-north-1.compute.amazonaws.com ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBKgiDgoYnG0jS/IoIqJqBEDL7SgWTalWmlUAGO3Kmz/TzZMDmtJnqDqXEyjYSWFuzy+0QG6/Qx5/iNPmZikvL1g=
...
i-013c16ce7ad79edda: Trying to extract SSH keys from console output
ec2-13-60-71-49.eu-north-1.compute.amazonaws.com ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBMJwtvOCkS+LKGc0vAU1wFMRmVqycwgWyi2+r2Oha0H68bSP7Dnhb+inTKQI+zI6iQMw8piAPuJjbAADSBzi3+E=
...
i-0a4ca2a65eb60dfcb: Trying to extract SSH keys from console output
ec2-51-20-116-145.eu-north-1.compute.amazonaws.com ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBDWSdqjRY1B9NxQlJyKisTCqIAMyHjPE80lXmGFwW5BF6ecOUFYJMidLIIfSiqWcydvzMmrim7m4z8L8e9q3Xt0=
...

5. Install Connect iT core

ansible-playbook main.yaml --diff --limit role_core --inventory inventory/aws_ec2.yml

Once the playbook is complete it might take a little bit until the HTTPS certificates are provisioned.

6. Install appliances

ansible-playbook main.yaml --diff --limit role_thumb,role_video,role_edgeconnect --inventory inventory/aws_ec2.yml