Thanks for the reply. I wasn't able to update this earlier as the post was being moderated. I was trying to figure out how to group my instances like you would with the standard /etc/ansible/hosts but after RTFM'ing further I discovered I could group them by adding a tag named class and calling those in my playbooks with tag_class_groupname. I started another post with a similar question about how to display tag_Name during the playbook runs but I'll wait for that post to be approved and update that one as well.
Now I would like to figure out how to On Monday, November 10, 2014 9:25:55 AM UTC-6, Michael Peters wrote: > > This is because tags are not properties on the instance objects. I do > agree that it's weird that you can only pick properties of the > underlying python object for the destination variable. > The list of those properties is available here: > http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/ref/ec2.html#module-boto.ec2.instance > > I think it could be improved if instance it waited until all the data > was gathered and then allowed you to pick anything that was a property > in the json hash instead. > > On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 8:59 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > Hi all. I am running into an issue and I am having trouble figuring out > the > > problem. > > > > I am trying to set up Ansible with the ec2.py script replacing > > /etc/ansible/hosts with ec2.py and I am attempting to list my instances > with > > tag_Name. > > > > I am running Ansible inside an Amazon VPC so I have the following > settings > > in ec2.ini > > > > destination_variable = private_dns_name > > vpc_destination_variable = private_ip_address > > > > When I run ec2.py --list it works: > > > > : ./ec2.py --list > > { > > "_meta": { > > "hostvars": { > > "10.30.15.0": { > > "ec2__in_monitoring_element": false, > > "ec2_ami_launch_index": "0", > > > > If I change vpc_destination_variable to other things like id or image_id > it > > works. But if I set it to tag_Name I get the following error: > > > > AttributeError: 'Instance' object has no attribute 'tag_Name' > > > > I see tag_Name as an attribute when I do ec2.py --host HOST > > > > What am I missing here? I am using Ansible 1.7.2 > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Ansible Project" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6c39f599-3659-419e-a951-5e37cc562c6a%40googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6132b1bf-9efe-4b4f-b23f-8bc74568f8cd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
