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This product has charges associated with it for TurnKey integration, maintenance, and support. Ansible is a preconfigured open-source appliance with automated security updates and backup tools.
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Overview
This product has charges associated with it for TurnKey Linux integration, automated security updates, backup tooling, and bundled support.
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.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Operating system
Debian 13/Trixie
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Pricing
Free trial
Try this product free for 7 days according to the free trial terms set by the vendor. Usage-based pricing is in effect for usage beyond the free trial terms. Your free trial gets automatically converted to a paid subscription when the trial ends, but may be canceled any time before that.
Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time. Alternatively, you can pay upfront for a contract, which typically covers your anticipated usage for the contract duration. Any usage beyond contract will incur additional usage-based costs.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
If you are an AWS Free Tier customer with a free plan, you are eligible to subscribe to this offer. You can use free credits to cover the cost of eligible AWS infrastructure. See AWS Free Tier for more details. If you created an AWS account before July 15th, 2025, and qualify for the Legacy AWS Free Tier, Amazon EC2 charges for Micro instances are free for up to 750 hours per month. See Legacy AWS Free Tier for more details.
Dimension | Cost/hour |
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t2.small Recommended | $0.02 |
t2.micro | $0.02 |
t3.micro | $0.02 |
c3.2xlarge | $0.02 |
c3.4xlarge | $0.02 |
c3.8xlarge | $0.02 |
c3.large | $0.02 |
c3.xlarge | $0.02 |
c4.2xlarge | $0.02 |
c4.4xlarge | $0.02 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour for the EC2 instance size you run. The software itself carries no license fee beyond the hourly rate tied to each instance type. Pricing scales with the compute class you pick. Options span general-purpose (t3, t3a, m7a, m8a, m8i-flex), compute-optimized (c5, c6, c7, c8 families), memory-optimized (r8i), and storage-optimized (i7i) instances. Sizes range from micro up to 2xlarge. You choose based on the workload and cost you want; a larger instance costs more per hour than a smaller one.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
The software rate meters running instance-hours. A fully stopped instance does not accrue the hourly software charge. You may still pay underlying AWS storage fees for the attached volume while the instance is stopped. Charges resume once you restart the instance.
One unit is one hour of runtime for a single instance of the size you launch. Each running instance bills separately by the hour. A larger instance size carries a higher hourly rate than a smaller one. You pick the size that fits your workload.
The AWS Marketplace subscription bundles chat and email support for default components, plus one free level 1 support incident per month and free cloud backup, restore, and migration. Accessing these requires registering a Hub account. Extra paid support for customizations is available at discounted rates.
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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
TurnKey ansible 19.0 is based on Debian 13 (Trixie). See https://www.turnkeylinux.org/updates/ansible for appliance-specific 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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This product has charges associated with it for TurnKey integration, maintenance, and support. Debian 13 Core Server is a preconfigured open-source appliance with automated security updates and backup tools.
Customer reviews
Hassan Bin T.
Ansible Review
Reviewed on Feb 20, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible streamlines configuration management by enabling task execution from my own machine using a single YAML file for various steps such as configuration, installation, and deployment. This file can be effortlessly reused across different environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ansible employs a push methodology, which doesn't scale efficiently. Additionally, in complex projects with numerous repetitive configurations, the playbooks can become quite lengthy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ansible is more reliable because it automates configuration tasks, reducing manual effort and minimizing the risk of errors. Being agentless, it allows servers to be managed remotely.
NO_EC2_for_you?
boto 2 doesn't support ec2_create module had to uninstall and install standard
Reviewed on Jan 20, 2019
Review from a verified AWS customer
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.