Ansible: provision newly allocated ec2 instance - amazon-web-services

Question

This playbook appears to be SSHing onto my local machine rather than the remote one. This condition is guessed based on the output I've included at the bottom.
I've adapted the example from here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/guide_aws.html#provisioning
The playbook is split into two plays:
creation of the EC2 instance and
configuration of the EC2 instance
Note: To run this you'll need to create a key-pair with the same name as the project (you can get more information here: https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-2#KeyPairs:sort=keyName)
The playbook is listed below:
# Create instance
- hosts: 127.0.0.1
connection: local
gather_facts: false
vars:
project_name: my-test
tasks:
- name: Get the current username
local_action: command whoami
register: username_on_the_host
- name: Capture current instances
ec2_remote_facts:
region: "us-west-2"
register: ec2_instances
- name: Create instance
ec2:
region: "us-west-2"
zone: "us-west-2c"
keypair: "{{ project_name }}"
group:
- "SSH only"
instance_type: "t2.nano"
image: "ami-59799439" # debian:jessie amd64 hvm on us-west 2
count_tag: "{{ project_name }}-{{ username_on_the_host.stdout }}-test"
exact_count: 1
wait: yes
instance_tags:
Name: "{{ project_name }}-{{ username_on_the_host.stdout }}-test"
"{{ project_name }}-{{ username_on_the_host.stdout }}-test": simple_ec2
Creator: "{{ username_on_the_host.stdout }}"
register: ec2_info
- name: Wait for instances to listen on port 22
wait_for:
state: started
host: "{{ item.public_dns_name }}"
port: 22
with_items: "{{ ec2_info.instances }}"
when: ec2_info|changed
- name: Add new instance to launched group
add_host:
hostname: "{{ item.public_dns_name }}"
groupname: launched
with_items: "{{ ec2_info.instances }}"
when: ec2_info|changed
- name: Get ec2_info information
debug:
msg: "{{ ec2_info }}"
# Configure and install all we need
- hosts: launched
remote_user: admin
gather_facts: true
tasks:
- name: Display all variables/facts known for a host
debug:
var: hostvars[inventory_hostname]
- name: List hosts
debug: msg="groups={{groups}}"
- name: Get current user
command: whoami
- name: Prepare system
become: yes
become_method: sudo
apt: "name={{item}} state=latest"
with_items:
- software-properties-common
- python-software-properties
- devscripts
- build-essential
- libffi-dev
- libssl-dev
- vim
The output I have is:
TASK [Get current user] ********************************************************
changed: [ec2-35-167-142-43.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com] => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["whoami"], "delta": "0:00:00.006532", "end": "2017-01-09 14:53:55.806000", "rc": 0, "start": "2017-01-09 14:53:55.799468", "stderr": "", "stdout": "brianbruggeman", "stdout_lines": ["brianbruggeman"], "warnings": []}
TASK [Prepare system] **********************************************************
failed: [ec2-35-167-142-43.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com] (item=['software-properties-common', 'python-software-properties', 'devscripts', 'build-essential', 'libffi-dev', 'libssl-dev', 'vim']) => {"failed": true, "item": ["software-properties-common", "python-software-properties", "devscripts", "build-essential", "libffi-dev", "libssl-dev", "vim"], "module_stderr": "sudo: a password is required\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE"}

Answer 1

This should work.
- name: Create Ec2 Instances
hosts: localhost
connection: local
gather_facts: False
vars:
project_name: device-graph
ami_id: ami-59799439 # debian jessie 64-bit hvm
region: us-west-2
zone: "us-west-2c"
instance_size: "t2.nano"
tasks:
- name: Provision a set of instances
ec2:
key_name: my_key
group: ["SSH only"]
instance_type: "{{ instance_size }}"
image: "{{ ami_id }}"
wait: true
exact_count: 1
count_tag:
Name: "{{ project_name }}-{{ username.stdout }}-test"
Creator: "{{ username.stdout }}"
Project: "{{ project_name }}"
instance_tags:
Name: "{{ project_name }}-{{ username.stdout }}-test"
Creator: "{{ username.stdout }}"
Project: "{{ project_name }}"
register: ec2
- name: Add all instance public IPs to host group
add_host:
hostname: "{{ item.public_ip }}"
groups: launched_ec2_hosts
with_items: "{{ ec2.tagged_instances }}"
- name: configuration play
hosts: launched_ec2_hosts
user: admin
gather_facts: true
vars:
ansible_ssh_private_key_file: "~/.ssh/project-name.pem"
tasks:
- name: get the username running the deploy
shell: whoami
register: username