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The ansible script to find ec2 instances with certain tags and terminate them. Does not uses ec2 dynamic inventory script.
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terminate_ec2_with_tags.yml
---
- name: Terminate EC2 instances
hosts: localhost
connection: local
gather_facts: no
vars:
aws_region: "eu-west-1"
ec2_tags:
Name: "Test Server"
Type: "API"
tasks:
- name: Find EC2 Facts
ec2_remote_facts:
region: "{{ aws_region }}"
register: ec2_facts
# (-) is used to stip white spaces
# http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#whitespace-control
- name: Filter EC2 instances
set_fact:
ec2_instances: |
{% set instances = [] %}
{% for item in ec2_facts.instances if item.tags == ec2_tags and item.state == 'running' -%}
{{ instances.append(item.id) }}
{%- endfor %}
{{ instances }}
- name: Terminate EC2 server
ec2:
region: "{{ aws_region }}"
instance_ids: "{{ item }}"
state: 'absent'
with_items: "{{ ec2_instances }}"
@babatundebusari
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does not work..does not target the instances with the specified tags
did this work for you?

@josnidhin
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This script was written a long time back. But its still working for me. Did you update the vars to reflect your environment?

The Filter EC2 instances task not required anymore, ec2_remote_facts now supports filtering.

@speedlight
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speedlight commented Feb 20, 2019 •
edited

As with latest version of ansible this is working for me searching by the Name tag but could be any key.

    ec2_instance_facts:
      region: "{{ region }}"
      filters:
        "tag:Name": "{{ ec2_tag_name }}"
    register: ec2_list

@aioue
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aioue commented May 12, 2022

They have renamed facts to info.

- name: collect list of node instances
  amazon.aws.ec2_instance_info:
    region: "{{ region }}"
    filters:
      "tag:Role": "node"
      "tag:Vpc": "{{ vpc_name }}"
  register: ec2_list

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