Ansible role for setting cloudwatch reporting script on ubuntu servers

ansible.cfg

[defaults]
hostfile =  hosts

folder structure

--roles
    --aws_monitoring
        --tasks
            --main.yml

ansible.cfg
hosts

setup_aws_reporting.yml

hosts

[app_servers]

app1.example.com ansible_ssh_user=ubuntu
app2.example.com ansible_ssh_user=ubuntu

Installation

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ansible
mkdir automation && cd automation
touch ansible.cfg && hosts
mkdir -pv roles/aws_monitoring/tasks/main.yml

main.yml

- name: Updating apt-cache
  sudo: yes
  apt: update_cache=yes cache_valid_time=3600

- name: Installing perl pre requirements and unzip
  sudo: yes
  apt: pkg={{item}} state=installed
  with_items:
  - libwww-perl
  - libdatetime-perl
  - libswitch-perl
  - unzip

- name: Checking if cloudwatch already Downloaded to this machine
  stat: path=~/aws-scripts-mon
  register: cloudwatch_folder

- name: Downloading aws cloudwatch reporting script
  get_url: url=http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/cloudwatch-samples/CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-v1.1.0.zip dest=~/CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-v1.1.0.zip
  when: not cloudwatch_folder.stat.exists

- name: Unzipping cloudwatch
  unarchive: src=/home/ubuntu/CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-v1.1.0.zip dest=/home/ubuntu/ copy=no
  when: not cloudwatch_folder.stat.exists

- name: removing zip
  file: path=/home/ubuntu/CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-v1.1.0 state=absent
- name: setup crontab reporting to aws cloud
  cron: name="report aws" minute="1" job="~/aws-scripts-mon/mon-put-instance-data.pl --mem-util --mem-used --mem-avail --disk-path=/ --disk-path=/home --disk-space-avail  --disk-space-used --disk-space-util --aws-credential-file=/home/ubuntu/aws-scripts-mon/awscreds.template >/dev/null 2>&1"

setup_aws_reporting.yml

---
- hosts: app_servers
  remote_user: ubuntu

  roles:

     - role: aws_monitoring