Overview
TurnKey Ansible helps save you time and money by providing a ready-to-run Ansible solution that is secure, supported and easy to maintain. The system auto-updates itself with security fixes and is built in a transparent 100% open source process free of hidden backdoors.
Ansible is a simple, agentless IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment and intra-service ochestration. It can configure systems, deploy software, and streamline advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates.
Highlights
- Secure, supported and easy to maintain: auto-updated daily with latest security patches. Bundled support for no extra charge.
- Free from hidden backdoors and vendor lock-in: transparent 100% opensource build of Debian GNU/Linux with no proprietary components or secret sauce.
- Free 1-click backup, restore and migrate: bundled backup software saves changes to files, databases and package management to encrypted storage which servers can be automatically restored from.
Details
Typical total price
$0.043/hour
Pricing
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.nano | $0.00 | $0.006 | $0.006 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.02 | $0.012 | $0.032 |
t2.small Recommended | $0.02 | $0.023 | $0.043 |
t2.medium | $0.02 | $0.046 | $0.066 |
t2.large | $0.02 | $0.093 | $0.113 |
m3.medium | $0.02 | $0.067 | $0.087 |
m3.large | $0.02 | $0.133 | $0.153 |
m3.xlarge | $0.02 | $0.266 | $0.286 |
m3.2xlarge | $0.02 | $0.532 | $0.552 |
m4.large | $0.02 | $0.10 | $0.12 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
90 day money back guarantee if you are not fully satisfied.
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Please see https://www.turnkeylinux.org/updates/ansible for release notes.
Additional details
Usage instructions
System Initialization:
After creating an EC2 instance with 1-Click, browse to http://<Public_DNS>/ for system initialization instructions.
Alternatively, log in via SSH as user 'admin' to the running instance. Be sure to use the SSH keypair selected during launch.
This inital step is required to set sensitive passwords & install security updates. You may also be asked to set a domain name for your server. If this is required, then it must be a valid domain name (i.e. have DNS configured).
Accessing the software main web app
http://<Public_DNS>/
This may redirect to https and/or the domain set at initialisation.
OS commands via SSH
Log into the running instance via SSH as user 'admin', using the SSH keypair set at launch time. Use sudo to run commands requiring root access.
Web based System Admin control panel
https://<Public_DNS>:12321
Remove scary browser warnings
By default TurnKey AMIs ship with randomly generated self signed SSL/TLS certifcates. This will cause scary warning in your web browser When accessing https.
To remove the browser warnings, you will need to get a SSL/TLS certificate signed by an authorized Certificate Authority (CA). The recommended way to do that is to get a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate. TurnKey comes with a built in tool to do that within your instance:
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Ensure that you have your chosen domain DNS records configured and your domain resolves to your instance.
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Access your instance via SSH.
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Run 'sudo confconsole'.
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Select:
Advanced >> Lets Encrypt >> Gen cert
For more info see: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/confconsole
More info
For more info specific to this instance, visit the product homepage:
Support
Vendor support
Free basic "getting started" initial support, plus one free "level 1" support incident per month. Any support incidents that are identified as being a bug in our initial server configuration will not be counted. Additional paid support is also available.
Contact support via https://hub.turnkeylinux.org or email support@turnkeylinux.org - please quote your AWS user ID and the product name you are seeking support for.
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Ansible Review
boto 2 doesn't support ec2_create module had to uninstall and install standard
It doesn't come with boto3 and boto2 has problems. Needs an update. Especially if you are going to charge.
When using the following package: tklbam-python-boto for boto2 which comes with the AMI the ec2 module with the create action failed with the following error
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ProfileNotFoundError'
Had to replace it with:
python-boto
I know this is supposed to be optimized for security etc but if the most obvious module doesn't work because the instance_profile_name input is set (see ansible docs for details) then what's the point.