ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'amazon.aws.ec2'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.

[DougMelvin]

I did this last week for a different client and everything worked as expected (eventually).
I've even nuked the VM I am working from and started completely from scratch five times so far.
I am doing this on the most recent version of Ubuntu Desktop from within a Virtualbox VM.
Please help me. I am at my wits' end.

Here are the steps I performed:
(I have been at this for hours so may have forgotten to document one or more step below)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt install ansible
sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo apt install podman
sudo apt install pwgen
podman pull quay.io/coreos/butane:release
sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/forem/selfhost.git
cd selfhost
./setup

-- added the vault keys including the silly indents with exactly the correct number of spaces.
-- added the domain, subdomain and default email.

ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml
ssh-keygen -t rsa
pip3 install boto boto3 botocore

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

aws configure --profile forem-selfhost

ansible-playbook -i inventory/forem/setup.yml playbooks/providers/aws.yml

Then I get an error:
_ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'amazon.aws.ec2'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.

The error appears to be in '/home/doug/selfhost/playbooks/providers/aws.yml': line 170, column 5, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

• name: "Launch Forem instance for {{ app_domain }}"
  ^ here
  We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
  missing quotes. Always quote template expression brackets when they
  start a value. For instance:

  with_items:

  • {{ foo }}

Should be written as:

with_items:
  - "{{ foo }}"_

Thanks.
Doug Melvin

[DougMelvin]

Either the AWS API changed or the latest version of the CLI or some other module but the result is that the module "amazon.aws.ec2" is not longer supported.

In /playbooks/providers/aws.yml starting at line 171 I needed to change amazon.aws.ec2 to amazon.aws.ec2_instance and update the parameters to match the expectations of the new module.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/amazon/aws/ec2_instance_module.html

There was also an error in the last two steps - deleting the content from the bucket and displaying the public IP address.
I did not fix those as I was happy enough to get the instance deployed.
I am pretty sure that {{ forem_ec2_instance.tagged_instances | map(attribute='public_ip') | list | first }}
needs to be replaced with {{ forem_ec2_instance.instances[0].public_ip_addres }}

Thanks,
Doug Melvin

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