Amazon Web Services

When using Centos 7 images, you may need to subscribe to the images at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00O7WM7QW, if you run without subscription the installer will fail with th error and provides the details on how to subscribe.

Variables

Variable Name Description Default value

Variable Name	Description	Default value
access_key	Your AWS Account Access Key
secret_key	Your AWS Account Access Secret Key
key_pair_name	The SSH Key pair that will be created, this key will be added to `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` of the `cloud_user` in the ec2 instances	openshift
cloud_user	The user to SSH into the instances	centos
private_key_file	The SSH private key file that gets saved after keypair creation	aws_openshift.pem
instance_type	The ec2 compute instances size	m5.xlarge
image	The AMI ID of the imagem defaults to CentOS 7 of `ap-south-1`, refer to https://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/AWS for more details of AMI for other regions / CentOS 6 is AMI is not supported as it doesn’t provide support for Elastic Network Adapter (ENA). Valid combinations of region/AMIs can be found in this document	ami-1780a878
region	The ec2 compute region	ap-south-1
security_group	The firewall Security Group by deault allows Port 22, 80,443 and 8443	all-ssh-http-https
is_rhel	Whether the AMI used is RHEL, this reserved for future use	False

access_key

Your AWS Account Access Key

secret_key

Your AWS Account Access Secret Key

key_pair_name

The SSH Key pair that will be created, this key will be added to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of the cloud_user in the ec2 instances

openshift

cloud_user

The user to SSH into the instances

centos

private_key_file

The SSH private key file that gets saved after keypair creation

aws_openshift.pem

instance_type

The ec2 compute instances size

m5.xlarge

image

The AMI ID of the imagem defaults to CentOS 7 of ap-south-1, refer to https://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/AWS for more details of AMI for other regions / CentOS 6 is AMI is not supported as it doesn’t provide support for Elastic Network Adapter (ENA). Valid combinations of region/AMIs can be found in this document

ami-1780a878

region

The ec2 compute region

ap-south-1

security_group

The firewall Security Group by deault allows Port 22, 80,443 and 8443

all-ssh-http-https

is_rhel

Whether the AMI used is RHEL, this reserved for future use

False

Valid region / AMI combinations

Region

AMI

us-west-1

ami-4826c22b

us-east-2

ami-9c0638f9

References

Ansible AWS Guide

Managing AWS Account Keys