Ansible: Not able to get AMI ID of newly created AMI - amazon-web-services

Question

I am using a playbook to create ami and trying to fetch the newly created ami id. But the debug is getting 'msg": "AMI not updated"'' Please help
- name: Create AMI
ec2_ami:
region: "{{ec2_region}}"
name: "aws-{{ec2_region}}"
state: present
instance_id: "{{ec2_info.instances.0.id}}"
wait: yes
tags:
Name: "aws-{{ec2_region}}-mr-ami"
deployment_type: "{{deployment_type}}"
pop_type: "{{pop_type}}"
register: image
- pause:
seconds: 10
- debug:
msg: "{{image}}"
- name: Set image id as fact
set_fact:
mr_ami_id: "{{image.image_id}}"
Playbook output
TASK [Create AMI]
*************************************************************************************************************************** ok: [localhost] => {
"changed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"architecture": "x86_64",
"aws_access_key": null,
"aws_secret_key": null,
"delete_snapshot": false,
"description": "",
"device_mapping": null,
"ec2_url": null,
"image_id": null,
"instance_id": "i-065404d0d37e0acfb",
"kernel_id": null,
"launch_permissions": null,
"name": "aws-ap-southeast-2-MessageRelay",
"no_reboot": false,
"profile": null,
"region": "ap-southeast-2",
"root_device_name": null,
"security_token": null,
"state": "present",
"tags": {
"Name": "aws-ap-southeast-2-mr-ami",
"deployment_type": "dev",
"pop_type": "mgmt"
},
"validate_certs": true,
"virtualization_type": "hvm",
"wait": true,
"wait_timeout": "900"
}
},
"launch_permissions": {},
"msg": "AMI not updated" }
TASK [pause]
******************************************************************************************************************************** task path: /root/*********************/create_ami.yml:24 Pausing for 10 seconds (ctrl+C then 'C' = continue early, ctrl+C then 'A' = abort) ok: [localhost] => {
"changed": false,
"delta": 10,
"rc": 0,
"start": "2017-08-01 08:48:29.756546",
"stderr": "",
"stdout": "Paused for 10.0 seconds",
"stop": "2017-08-01 08:48:39.756843",
"user_input": "" }
TASK [debug]
******************************************************************************************************************************** task path: /root/*****************/create_ami.yml:27 ok: [localhost]
=> {
"changed": false,
"msg": {
"changed": false,
"launch_permissions": {},
"msg": "AMI not updated"
} }
TASK [Set image id as fact]
***************************************************************************************************************** task path: /root/***********/trunk/ncs/pop-deployment/********_asg/tasks/create_ami.yml:30 fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {
"failed": true,
"msg": "the field 'args' has an invalid value, which appears to include a variable that is undefined. The error was: 'dict object' has no attribute 'image_id'\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/root/**************************/create_ami.yml': line 30, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: Set image id as fact\n ^ here\n" }
PLAY RECAP
********************************************************************************************************************************** ip-10-10-5-111.ap-southeast-2.compute.internal : ok=13 changed=9 unreachable=0 failed=0 localhost : ok=69 changed=31 unreachable=0 failed=1

Answer 1

This was happening because AMI with name "aws-{{ec2_region}}" was already there and hence no new ami was getting created. I deleted the old AMI and ran the playbook again without any issues.