Create many AWS instances with Ansible, 'count' does not work - amazon-web-services

Question

I have this playbook:
---
# Run it like this:
# ansible-playbook --extra-vars '{"VAR":"var-value", "VAR":"var-value"}' playbook-name.yml
- hosts: localhost
vars:
instance_tag : "{{ TAG }}"
instances_num: 2
tasks:
- name: Create new AWS instances
local_action:
module: ec2
region: us-east-1
key_name: integration
instance_type: m3.medium
image: ami-61dcvfa
group: mysecgroup
instance_tags:
Name: "{{ instance_tag }}"
with_sequence: count = {{ instances_num | int }}
When I run it it throws this:
TASK: [Create new AWS instances] **********************************************
fatal: [localhost] => unknown error parsing with_sequence arguments: u'count = 1'
FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting
What am I doing wrong?
I have tried with 2 also, but throws the same error.
I have tried also with "{{instances_num}}" but nothing.

Answer 1

The ec2 module has a count parameter that you can use directly rather than trying to loop the task over a sequence.
You can use it like this:
---
# Run it like this:
# ansible-playbook --extra-vars '{"VAR":"var-value", "VAR":"var-value"}' playbook-name.yml
- hosts: localhost
vars:
instance_tag : "{{ TAG }}"
instances_num: 2
tasks:
- name: Create new AWS instances
local_action:
module: ec2
region: us-east-1
key_name: integration
instance_type: m3.medium
image: ami-61dcvfa
group: mysecgroup
instance_tags:
Name: "{{ instance_tag }}"
count: "{{ instances_num }}"