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How do I create a new key in Ansible using the ec2_key module?

I don't know how to use the ec2_key module in Ansible. Can someone please give me an example on how to create a new Key-Pair?

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working example:



- name: Create an EC2 key
  ec2_key:
    name: "mykey"
    region: "eu-west-1"
  register: ec2_key

- name: save private key
  copy:
    content: "{{ ec2_key.key.private_key }}" 
    dest: "./aws-private.pem" 
    mode: 0600
  when: ec2_key.changed
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The examples in the Ansible documentation show exactly how to do this:



# Creates a new ec2 key pair named `example` if not present, returns generated
# private key
- name: example ec2 key
  local_action:
    module: ec2_key
    name: example

# Creates a new ec2 key pair named `example` if not present using provided key
# material
- name: example2 ec2 key
  local_action:
    module: ec2_key
    name: example2
    key_material: 'ssh-rsa AAAAxyz...== me@example.com'
    state: present

# Creates a new ec2 key pair named `example` if not present using provided key
# material
- name: example3 ec2 key
  local_action:
    module: ec2_key
    name: example3
    key_material: "{{ item }}"
  with_file: /path/to/public_key.id_rsa.pub
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But you cannot save the generated private key , so this method is not suitable. Instead of using the ec2_key module, use the command module and use the aws cli to create and store the private key in the pem file. eg.

- command: /usr/local/bin/aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name keypair_name > ~/keypair_name.pem
  register: keypair
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