Foundation Base AMI

The only requirement for a Foundation AMI to be used with the Ansible Provisioner is that Ansible already be installed.

The easy way is to use one of the pre-built Foundation AMIs:

https://github.com/Answers4AWS/netflixoss-ansible/wiki/Foundation-AMIs-for-Aminator

or you can follow the Creation of an Ubuntu 12.04 foundation AMI instructions and make your own. Before snapshotting remember to install Ansible.

Installing Ansible via RPM:

http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/gettingstarted.html#via-rpm

Installing Ansible via APT:

http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/gettingstarted.html#ubuntu-and-debian

or use the PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~rquillo/+archive/ansible