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Scaling Host on Amazon AWS EC2 using Ansible

It's already a long time since I started playing around with Ansible. Actually I was curious about other CM (Configuration Management) software tools like SaltStack , Chef or Puppet but as long as I started looking for them I jumped into a book which compares and explains them, giving a real taste of all of them. It turns out that Ansible was both powerful and simple to learn and without particular requested backgrounds. What captured early my attention was the possibility to deploy quickly host machines on Amazon AWS using EC2 and the corresponding Ec2 Ansible module , since I haven't a “real” set of machines to play with. Using EC2 hosts I can easily test my configuration without worrying about which machine I am using, moreover using micro-instances these tests are almost priceless (as long as you remember to stop them from time to time!). What I wanted to create is a system to deploy on Amazon AWS a scalable set of instances of Apache Tomcat container proxied vi