cloudformation - Create or delete an AWS CloudFormation stack¶

- name: create a cloudformation stack
  cloudformation:
    stack_name: "ansible-cloudformation"
    state: "present"
    region: "us-east-1"
    disable_rollback: true
    template: "files/cloudformation-example.json"
    template_parameters:
      KeyName: "jmartin"
      DiskType: "ephemeral"
      InstanceType: "m1.small"
      ClusterSize: 3
    tags:
      Stack: "ansible-cloudformation"

# Basic role example
- name: create a stack, specify role that cloudformation assumes
  cloudformation:
    stack_name: "ansible-cloudformation"
    state: "present"
    region: "us-east-1"
    disable_rollback: true
    template: "roles/cloudformation/files/cloudformation-example.json"
    role_arn: 'arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/cloudformation-iam-role'

- name: delete a stack
  cloudformation:
    stack_name: "ansible-cloudformation-old"
    state: "absent"

# Create a stack, pass in template from a URL, disable rollback if stack creation fails,
# pass in some parameters to the template, provide tags for resources created
- name: create a stack, pass in the template via an URL
  cloudformation:
    stack_name: "ansible-cloudformation"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    disable_rollback: true
    template_url: https://s3.amazonaws.com/my-bucket/cloudformation.template
    template_parameters:
      KeyName: jmartin
      DiskType: ephemeral
      InstanceType: m1.small
      ClusterSize: 3
    tags:
      Stack: ansible-cloudformation

# Create a stack, passing in template body using lookup of Jinja2 template, disable rollback if stack creation fails,
# pass in some parameters to the template, provide tags for resources created
- name: create a stack, pass in the template body via lookup template
  cloudformation:
    stack_name: "ansible-cloudformation"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    disable_rollback: true
    template_body: "{{ lookup('template', 'cloudformation.j2') }}"
    template_parameters:
      KeyName: jmartin
      DiskType: ephemeral
      InstanceType: m1.small
      ClusterSize: 3
    tags:
      Stack: ansible-cloudformation

# Pass a template parameter which uses Cloudformation's UsePreviousValue attribute
# When use_previous_value is set to True, the given value will be ignored and
# Cloudformation will use the value from a previously submitted template.
# If use_previous_value is set to False (default) the given value is used.
- cloudformation:
    stack_name: "ansible-cloudformation"
    state: "present"
    region: "us-east-1"
    template: "files/cloudformation-example.json"
    template_parameters:
      DBSnapshotIdentifier:
        use_previous_value: True
        value: arn:aws:rds:es-east-1:000000000000:snapshot:rds:my-db-snapshot
      DBName:
        use_previous_value: True
    tags:
      Stack: "ansible-cloudformation"

# Enable termination protection on a stack.
# If the stack already exists, this will update its termination protection
- name: enable termination protection during stack creation
  cloudformation:
    stack_name: my_stack
    state: present
    template_url: https://s3.amazonaws.com/my-bucket/cloudformation.template
    termination_protection: yes

# Configure TimeoutInMinutes before the stack status becomes CREATE_FAILED
# In this case, if disable_rollback is not set or is set to false, the stack will be rolled back.
- name: enable termination protection during stack creation
  cloudformation:
    stack_name: my_stack
    state: present
    template_url: https://s3.amazonaws.com/my-bucket/cloudformation.template
    create_timeout: 5