Ansible Role: AWS CLI

An Ansible Galaxy role for installing or updating AWS Command Line Interface.

Role Variables

The role defaults (see defaults/main.yml) use Amazon's official installer URL for the 64-bit Linux package:

aws_cli_url: https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip

To specify a different location for the installer package, override the aws_cli_url role variable in your playbook:

aws_cli_url: https://...

If AWS CLI is already installed at the default location of /usr/local/bin/aws this role will make no changes. To always update to the latest available version of AWS CLI, override the aws_cli_update role variable default:

aws_cli_update: true

This role creates a temporary directory under /tmp where the AWS CLI installer and associated files are extracted before the AWS CLI install script is executed. The temporary directory is removed after the script completes. If the /tmp directory on the target host(s) resides on a filesystem that is mounted with the noexec option, installation will fail with a 'Permission denied' error as the install script cannot be executed in this scenario. Specify an alternative path in this case, using the aws_cli_temp_dir role variable, to a directory without execution restrictions:

aws_cli_temp_dir: "/home/{{ ansible_user }}"

Using the above value, the temporary directory will be created inside /home/{{ ansible_user }} rather than /tmp, and will be removed at the end of the role.

Example Requirements File

- src: https://github.com/companieshouse/ansible-role-aws-cli
  name: aws-cli
  version: "n.n.n"

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - aws-cli

License

MIT