This adds termination support to the ec2 module

playbooks/edx_sandbox.yml

 - name: Create sandbox instance
   hosts: localhost
   connection: local
-  user: root
-  sudo: False
   gather_facts: False
-
   vars:
     keypair: continuous-integration
     instance_type: m1.large
     security_group: sandbox
     image: ami-d0f89fb9
     region: us-east-1
-
-  roles:
-    - launch_instance
+  tasks:
+    - name: Launch instance 
+      local_action: ec2 keypair=$keypair group=$security_group instance_type=$instance_type image=$image wait=true region=$region count=2
+      register: ec2
+    - name: Add new instance to host group
+      local_action: add_host hostname=${item.public_ip} groupname=launched 
+      with_items: ${ec2.instances}
+    - name: Wait for SSH to come up
+      local_action: wait_for host=${item.public_dns_name} port=22 delay=60 timeout=320 state=started
+      with_items: ${ec2.instances}
 
 - name: Configure instance(s)
   hosts: launched
@@ -24,8 +28,16 @@
   vars_files:
     - "{{ secure_dir }}/vars/edxapp_ref_users.yml"
     - "{{ secure_dir }}/vars/edxapp_sandbox.yml"
-  roles:
-    - common
-    - nginx
-    - edxlocal
-    - edxapp
+  tasks:
+    command: true
+
+
+- name: Terminate instances
+  hosts: localhost
+  connection: local
+  tasks:
+    - name: Terminate instances that were previously launched
+      local_action: 
+        module: ec2 
+        termination_list: ${ec2.instances}
+#      with_items: ${ec2.instances}