For cost reasons, our ASG's in the QA environment run with desired/min/max capacity set to "1". That's not the case for Production but since we use the same code for QA and Prod deployment (minus a few variables of course) this is causing problems with the QA automation jobs.
- name: create autoscale groups original_lc
ec2_asg:
name: "{{ app_name }}"
target_group_arns: "{{alb_target_group_facts.target_groups[0].target_group_arn}}"
launch_config_name: "{{ launch_config.name }}"
min_size: 1
max_size: 1
desired_capacity: 1
region: "{{ region }}"
vpc_zone_identifier: "{{ subnets | join(',') }}"
health_check_type: "{{health_check}}"
replace_all_instances: yes
wait_for_instances: false
replace_batch_size: '{{ rollover_size }}'
lc_check: false
default_cooldown: "{{default_cooldown}}"
health_check_period: "{{health_check_period}}"
notification_topic: "{{redeem_notification_group}}"
tags:
- Name : "{{ app_name }}"
- Application: "{{ tag_Application }}"
- Product_Owner: "{{ tag_Product_Owner }}"
- Resource_Owner: "{{ tag_Resource_Owner }}"
- Role: "{{ tag_Role }}"
- Service_Category: "{{ tag_Service_Category }}"
register: asg_original_lc
On the first run, the "ec2_asg" module creates the group properly, with the correct desired/min/max settings.
But when we run the job a second time to update the same ASG, it changes desired/min/max to "2" in AWS. We don't want that. We just want it to rotate out that one instance in the group. Is there a way to achieve that?
I'm trying to query AWS EC2 AMIs from Ansible but keep running into an error when looping through the results:
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Get AMI
ec2_ami_facts:
owner: amazon
filters:
architecture: x86_64
root-device-type: ebs
register: amis
- name: return filtered data
debug:
msg: "{{ item }}"
loop: " {{ amis \
| json_query( 'Images[?Description!=`null`] \
| [?starts_with(Description,`Amazon Linux`)]' ) \
}} "
The idea is to return the image documents, and later just the image IDs with more filtering (end goal is to get the most recent ami id for a given description). But with the current example, and anything else I try I get this error:
TASK [return filtered data] ****************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Invalid data passed to 'loop',
it requires a list, got this instead: . Hint: If you passed a
list/dict of just one element, try adding wantlist=True to your lookup
invocation or use q/query instead of lookup."}
I can look at the 'amis' in its entirety and it looks good, but any filtering I try fails. What is the correct method?
This works, thanks for the folks at #ansible on freenode.
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Get AMI
ec2_ami_facts:
owner: amazon
filters:
architecture: x86_64
root-device-type: ebs
register: amis
- name: return latest AMI
set_fact:
my_ami: "{{ amis.images \
| selectattr('description', 'defined') \
| selectattr('description', 'match', '^Amazon Linux.*GP2$') \
| selectattr('description', 'match', '[^(Candidate)]') \
| sort(attribute='creation_date') \
| last }} "
- debug:
msg: "ami = {{ my_ami | to_nice_yaml }}"
Also see here: https://bitbucket.org/its-application-delivery/ansible-aws/src/master/ansible/task_find_ami.yml?fileviewer=file-view-default
Use following to dynamically fetch the latest AMI.
---
- name: Find latest AMI
ec2_ami_facts:
owners: 099720109477
region: "{{ AWS_REGION }}"
filters:
name: "ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-*"
register: findami
- name: Sort the latest AMI
set_fact:
latest_ami: >
{{ findami.images | sort(attribute='creation_date') | last }}
- name: Launch Instance with latest AMI
ec2:
instance_type: "{{ INSTANCE_TYPE }}"
image: "{{ latest_ami.image_id }}"
key_name: "{{ KEY_NAME }}"
region: "{{ AWS_REGION }}"
group_id: "{{ sg.group_id }}"
wait: yes
count: "{{ INSTANCES_COUNT }}"
vpc_subnet_id: "{{ subnet.subnet.id }}"
assign_public_ip: no
I have created a role and a playbook , Now in my playbook , I am defining Ec2 tags such as :
instance_tags: "Name={{ name }},bld_env={{ bld_env }},server={{ app_name }}-{{ bld_env }}"
I also have to make a condition here for bld_env thats suppose if bld_env is "test", add more tags .
can you help me out with tagging in case of conditional statement ?
Eg:
My
tagging.yml
file :
- name: Launch EC2 host
hosts: localhost
connection: local
gather_facts: False
vars:
bld_env: "{{ bld_env }}"
count: 1
instance_type: "{{ size }}"
image: "{{ image }}"
ansible_ssh_user: "ec2-user"
region: "{{ region }}"
pem_path: "~/.ssh"
group_name: "ec2hosts"
vpc_subnet_id: "{{ lookup('ini', 'vpc_subnet section=vpc file=./{{ bld_env }}.ini') }}"
assign_public_ip: "{{ ip }}"
keypair: "{{ key }}"
access_key: "{{ access }}"
secret_key: "{{ secret }}"
instance_tags: "Name={{ name }},bld_env={{ bld_env }},server={{ app_name }}-{{ bld_env }}"
security_group: "[{{ group }}]"
roles:
- ec2
Now as you can see the instance_tags here , I want to add a condition under this instance_tags as : when bld_env is "test" add another tag "Label=ec2start-stop"
So this Label has to be added only when bld_env is "test" since I am dealing with multiple env here ..
You can use any Jinja2 conditions inside expressions, for example (see end of line):
instance_tags: "Name={{ name }},bld_env={{ bld_env }},server={{ app_name }}-{{ bld_env }}{{ '' if bld_env != 'test' else ',other_tag='+other_tag_value }}"
This will append empty line if bld_env != 'test' or ,other_tag=<other_tag_value> otherwise.
i have role for Route53 (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/route53_module.html) and task is:
- name: "SET DNS record"
route53:
aws_access_key: "ACCESSKEY"
aws_secret_key: "SECRET"
command: "create"
zone: "{{ dns_zone }}"
hosted_zone_id: "{{ dns_zone_id }}"
record: "{{ item.dns_record }}"
type: "{{ item.dns_type }}"
ttl: "{{ item.dns_ttl }}"
value: "{{ item.dns_value }}"
failover: "{{item.failover}}"
health_check: "{{item.health_check}}"
identifier: "{{item.identifier}}"
with_items:
- "{{ dns_records }}"
Example of DNS records:
dns_records:
- dns_record: "try1.example.com"
dns_type: "A"
dns_ttl: "3600"
dns_value: "1.1.1.1"
failover: "PRIMARY"
health_check: "aeejas728asd"
identifier: "identifier01"
- dns_record: "try2.example.com"
dns_type: "A"
dns_ttl: "3600"
dns_value: "2.2.2.2"
If i run paybook role FAILS because second value have undefined failover, health_check and identifier. How can i set expression for IF else?
My try:
identifier: "{{item.identifier if item.identifier is defined else '!'}}"
is not working. I need IF not defined THEN IGNORE VALUE.
Thanks for help!
From the docs:
identifier: "{{item.identifier|default(omit)}}"
I'm having a really hard time doing what seems like a fairly standard task so I'm hoping somebody can help me. I've googled this like crazy and most of the examples are not in VPC or use deprecated structure that makes them wrong or unusable in my use case.
Here are my goals:
I want to launch a whole mess of new instances in my VPC (the same
code below has 3 but it could be a hundred)
I want to wait for thoseinstances to come alive
I then want to configure those instances (ssh into them, change
hostname, enable some services, etc. etc.)
Now I could probably do this in 2 tasks. I could create the instances in 1 playbook. Wait for them to settle down. Then run a 2nd playbook to configure them. That's probably what I'm going to do now because I want to get moving - but there has to be a one shot answer to this.
Here's what I have so far for a playbook
---
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
gather_facts: False
tasks:
- name: Provision Lunch
with_items:
- hostname: eggroll1
- hostname: eggroll2
- hostname: eggroll3
ec2:
region: us-east-1
key_name: eggfooyong
vpc_subnet_id: subnet-8675309
instance_type: t2.micro
image: ami-8675309
wait: true
group_id: sg-8675309
exact_count: 1
count_tag:
Name: "{{ item.hostname }}"
instance_tags:
Name: "{{ item.hostname }}"
role: "supper"
ansibleowned: "True"
register: ec2
- name: Wait for SSH to come up
wait_for: host={{ item.private_ip }} port=22 delay=60 timeout=900 state=started
with_items: '{{ec2.instances}}'
- name: Update hostname on instances
hostname: name={{ item.private_ip }}
with_items: '{{ec2.instances}}'
And that doens't work. What I get is
TASK [Wait for SSH to come up] *************************************************
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Skipping task due to undefined Error, in the future this will be a fatal error.. This feature will be removed in a future release. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting
deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
TASK [Update hostname on instances] ********************************************
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Skipping task due to undefined Error, in the future this will be a fatal error.. This feature will be removed in a future release. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting
deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
Which makes me sad. Now this is my latest incarnation of that playbook. But I've tried to rewrite it using every example I can find on the internet. Most of them have with_items written in a different way, but ansible tells me that way is depricated, and then fails.
So far ansible has been fun and easy, but this is making me want to toss my laptop across the street.
Any suggestions? Should I be using register and with_items at all? Would I be better off using something like this:
add_host: hostname={{item.public_ip}} groupname=deploy
instead? I'm wide open to a rewrite here. I'm going to go write this up in 2 playbooks and would love to get suggestions.
Thanks!
****EDIT****
Now it's just starting to feel broken or seriously changed. I've googled dozens of examples and they all are written the same way and they all fail with the same error. This is my simple playbook now:
---
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
gather_facts: False
vars:
builderstart: 93
builderend: 94
tasks:
- name: Provision Lunch
ec2:
region: us-east-1
key_name: dakey
vpc_subnet_id: subnet-8675309
instance_type: t2.micro
image: ami-8675309
wait: True
group_id: sg-OU812
exact_count: 1
count_tag:
Name: "{{ item }}"
instance_tags:
Name: "{{ item }}"
role: "dostuff"
extracheese: "True"
register: ec2
with_sequence: start="{{builderstart}}" end="{{builderend}}" format=builder%03d
- name: the newies
debug: msg="{{ item }}"
with_items: "{{ ec2.instances }}"
It really couldn't be more straight forward. No matter how I write it, no matter how I vary it, I get the same basic error:
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Skipping task due to undefined Error, in the
future this will be a fatal error.: 'dict object' has no attribute
'instances'.
So it looks like it's the with_items: "{{ ec2.instances }}" line that's causing the error.
I've used debug to print out ec2 and that error looks accurate. It looks like the structure changed to me. It looks like ec2 now contains a dictionary with results as a key to another dictionary object and that instances is a key in that dictionary. But I can't find a sane way to access the data.
For what it's worth, I've tried accessing this in 2.0.1, 2.0.2, and 2.2 and I get the same problem in every case.
Are the rest of you using 1.9 or something? I can't find an example anywhere that works. It's very frustrating.
Thanks again for any help.
Don't do it like this:
- name: Provision Lunch
with_items:
- hostname: eggroll1
- hostname: eggroll2
- hostname: eggroll3
ec2:
region: us-east-1
Because by using it you flushing all info from ec2 in your item.
You receiving following output:
TASK [Launch instance] *********************************************************
changed: [localhost] => (item={u'hostname': u'eggroll1'})
changed: [localhost] => (item={u'hostname': u'eggroll2'})
but item should be like this:
changed: [localhost] => (item={u'kernel': None, u'root_device_type': u'ebs', u'private_dns_name': u'ip-172-31-29-85.ec2.internal', u'public_ip': u'54.208.138.217', u'private_ip': u'172.31.29.85', u'id': u'i-003b63636e7ffc27c', u'ebs_optimized': False, u'state': u'running', u'virtualization_type': u'hvm', u'architecture': u'x86_64', u'ramdisk': None, u'block_device_mapping': {u'/dev/sda1': {u'status': u'attached', u'delete_on_termination': True, u'volume_id': u'vol-37581295'}}, u'key_name': u'eggfooyong', u'image_id': u'ami-fce3c696', u'tenancy': u'default', u'groups': {u'sg-aabbcc34': u'ssh'}, u'public_dns_name': u'ec2-54-208-138-217.compute-1.amazonaws.com', u'state_code': 16, u'tags': {u'ansibleowned': u'True', u'role': u'supper'}, u'placement': u'us-east-1d', u'ami_launch_index': u'1', u'dns_name': u'ec2-54-208-138-217.compute-1.amazonaws.com', u'region': u'us-east-1', u'launch_time': u'2016-04-19T08:19:16.000Z', u'instance_type': u't2.micro', u'root_device_name': u'/dev/sda1', u'hypervisor': u'xen'})
Try to use following code
- name: Create a sandbox instance
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: False
vars:
keypair: eggfooyong
instance_type: t2.micro
security_group: ssh
image: ami-8675309
region: us-east-1
subnet: subnet-8675309
instance_names:
- eggroll1
- eggroll2
tasks:
- name: Launch instance
ec2:
key_name: "{{ keypair }}"
group: "{{ security_group }}"
instance_type: "{{ instance_type }}"
image: "{{ image }}"
wait: true
region: "{{ region }}"
vpc_subnet_id: "{{ subnet }}"
assign_public_ip: no
count: "{{ instance_names | length }}"
register: ec2
- name: tag instances
ec2_tag:
resource: '{{ item.0.id }}'
region: '{{ region }}'
tags:
Name: '{{ item.1 }}'
role: "supper"
ansibleowned: "True"
with_together:
- '{{ ec2.instances }}'
- '{{ instance_names }}'
- name: Wait for SSH to come up
wait_for: host={{ private_ip }} port=22 delay=60 timeout=320 state=started
with_items: '{{ ec2.instances }}'
Assumption that your ansible host located inside of VPC
To achieve this goal, I have written a really small filter plugin get_ec2_info.
Create a directory with the named filter_plugins
Create a plugin file get_ec2_info.py with the following content:
from jinja2.utils import soft_unicode
class FilterModule(object):
def filters(self):
return {
'get_ec2_info': get_ec2_info,
}
def get_ec2_info(list, ec2_key):
ec2_info = []
for item in list:
for ec2 in item['instances']:
ec2_info.append(ec2[ec2_key])
return ec2_info
Then you can use this in your playbook:
---
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
gather_facts: False
tasks:
- name: Provision Lunch
ec2:
region: us-east-1
key_name: eggfooyong
vpc_subnet_id: subnet-8675309
instance_type: t2.micro
image: ami-8675309
wait: true
group_id: sg-8675309
exact_count: 1
count_tag:
Name: "{{ item.hostname }}"
instance_tags:
Name: "{{ item.hostname }}"
role: "supper"
ansibleowned: "True"
register: ec2
with_items:
- hostname: eggroll1
- hostname: eggroll2
- hostname: eggroll3
- name: Create SSH Group to login dynamically to EC2 Instance(s)
add_host:
hostname: "{{ item }}"
groupname: my_ec2_servers
with_items: "{{ ec2.results | get_ec2_info('public_ip') }}"
- name: Wait for SSH to come up on EC2 Instance(s)
wait_for:
host: "{{ item }}"
port: 22
state: started
with_items: "{{ ec2.results | get_ec2_info('public_ip') }}"
# CALL THE DYNAMIC GROUP IN THE SAME PLAYBOOK
- hosts: my_ec2_servers
become: yes
remote_user: ubuntu
gather_facts: yes
tasks:
- name: DO YOUR TASKS HERE
EXTRA INFORMAITON:
using ansible 2.0.1.0
assuming you are spinning up ubuntu instances, if not then change the value in remote_user: ubuntu
assuming ssh key is properly configured
Please consult these github repos for more help:
ansible-aws-role-1
ansible-aws-role-2
I thinks this would be helpful for debug.
https://www.middlewareinventory.com/blog/ansible-dict-object-has-no-attribute-stdout-or-stderr-how-to-resolve/
The ec2 register is a dict type. And it has a key results.
results key has many elements including dict and list like below:
{
"msg": {
"results": [
{
"invocation": {
},
"instances": [],
"changed": false,
"tagged_instances": [
{
}
],
"instance_ids": null,
"failed": false,
"item": [
],
"ansible_loop_var": "item"
}
],
"msg": "All items completed",
"changed": false
},
"_ansible_verbose_always": true,
"_ansible_no_log": false,
"changed": false
}
So, you can get the desired data using ., for instance, item.changed which has false boolean value.
- debug:
msg: "{{ item.changed }}"
loop: "{{ ec2.results }}"