From f241c70740357c4e977ccbdeb4e6b931e706e123 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Coca Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 09:54:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] corrected usage of ec2.py's profile option this was never introduced into ansible-playbook though the docs stated otherwise. We still explain how to use the env var to get the same result. --- docsite/rst/intro_dynamic_inventory.rst | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docsite/rst/intro_dynamic_inventory.rst b/docsite/rst/intro_dynamic_inventory.rst index 1a2bd6f72c3..5f491ebc2ef 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/intro_dynamic_inventory.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/intro_dynamic_inventory.rst @@ -111,9 +111,8 @@ If you use boto profiles to manage multiple AWS accounts, you can pass ``--profi aws_access_key_id = aws_secret_access_key = -You can then run ``ec2.py --profile prod`` to get the inventory for the prod account, or run playbooks with: ``ansible-playbook -i 'ec2.py --profile prod' myplaybook.yml``. - -Alternatively, use the ``AWS_PROFILE`` variable - e.g. ``AWS_PROFILE=prod ansible-playbook -i ec2.py myplaybook.yml`` +You can then run ``ec2.py --profile prod`` to get the inventory for the prod account, this option is not supported by ``anisble-playbook`` though. +But you can use the ``AWS_PROFILE`` variable - e.g. ``AWS_PROFILE=prod ansible-playbook -i ec2.py myplaybook.yml`` Since each region requires its own API call, if you are only using a small set of regions, feel free to edit ``ec2.ini`` and list only the regions you are interested in. There are other config options in ``ec2.ini`` including cache control, and destination variables.