Terminating all the resources

Before we complete this chapter, we need to look at terminating the resources; to do this, you can run the following:

$ ansible-playbook -i hosts destroy.yml

This removes everything in the reverse order that we launched it, starting with the Auto Scaling Group:

PLAY [Destroy the AWS Environment created by the site.yml playbook] ************
TASK [Gathering Facts] ************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Delete the Auto Scaling Group] **********************
changed: [localhost]
TASK [Delete the Launch Template] *************************
changed: [localhost]

As there can be more than one AMI, we gather some facts and then loop through removing everything that is returned:

TASK [Get information about the AMIs] *********************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Delete the AMI(s)] **********************************
changed: [localhost] => (item={'architecture': 'x86_64', 'creation_date': '2024-01...