Ansible playbook for AWS S3 bucket creation | How to create S3 bucket using Ansible in AWS Cloud

We will learn how to create new S3 bucket using Ansible playbook and automate the execution using Jenkins Pipeline. 

Pre-requisites:

• Ansible is installed and Boto is also installed on Jenkins instance
• Ansible plug-in is installed in Jenkins. 
• Make sure you create an IAM role with AmazonS3FullAccess policy and attach the role to Jenkins EC2 instance.

• Playbook for creating new S3 bucket needs to be created but you can refer my GitHub Repo

Ansible playbook for AWS S3 bucket creation

Steps:

1. Create Ansible playbook for S3 bucket creation

(Sample playbook is available in my GitHub Repo, you can use that as a reference)

2. Create Jenkins Pipeline 

pipeline {

    agent any

    stages {

        

        stage ("checkout") {

            steps {

                        checkout([$class: 'GitSCM', branches: [[name: '*/master']], extensions: [],                                                     userRemoteConfigs: [[url: 'https://github.com/akannan1087/myAnsibleInfraRepo']]])         

            }

        }

        stage('execute') {

            steps {

                //to suppress warnings when you execute playbook    

                sh "pip install --upgrade requests==2.20.1"

                // execute ansible playbook

                ansiblePlaybook 'create-s3.yml'

            }

        }

    }

}

Execute Pipeline

Pipeline Console output

Playbook for creating S3 for your reference:

create-s3.yml

---

 - name:  provisioning S3 Bucket using Ansible playbook

   hosts: localhost

   connection: local

   gather_facts: False

   tags: provisioning

   tasks:

     - name: create S3 bucket

       s3_bucket:

         name: myansibles3bucket312

         state: present

         region: us-east-1

         versioning: yes

         tags:

           name: myansiblebucket

           type: example

       register: s3_url

     - name: Display s3 url

       debug: var=s3_url