Ansible Playbooks using EC2 Systems Manager gets an upgrade

Back in May 2017 AWS blogged about the ability to run ansible playbooks (here).

On the 24th of Sept 2019 they announced a new Systems Manager document that can be used in conjunction with either the Run command or the State Manager:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/now-use-aws-systems-manager-to-execute-complex-ansible-playbooks/

The value add here is that it now caters for: “execution of a series of playbooks that are zipped or stored in a directory structure on GitHub or Amazon S3”

Might have to have a play with this feature soon. If I do I will be sure to let you know my findings 🙂