It was reported on stacktrace as well:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27605262/other-images-in-ansible-and-gce
not sure you saw that
Peter
On Friday, December 5, 2014 9:31:05 AM UTC-8, Luis Medina wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Let me start out with the playbook I'm using (any authentication info you
> see below has been modified from the original so no worries about privacy
> concerns):
>
> ---
> - name: Create instance(s)
> hosts: localhost
> connection: local
> gather_facts: no
>
> vars:
> service_account_email:
> 457671988709-m1346pm0lmrfb733qqjnmife8na6h...@developer.gserviceaccount.com
> <javascript:>
> pem_file: ./roles/google/files/pkey.pem
> project_id: rosy-stronghold-765
> machine_type: n1-standard-1
> image: ubuntu
> zone: us-central1-a
>
> tasks:
>
> - name: Launch instances
> gce:
> instance_names: dev
> machine_type: "{{ machine_type }}"
> image: "{{ image }}"
> service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
> pem_file: "{{ pem_file }}"
> project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
> zone: "{{ zone }}"
>
>
> I've been trying to use ansible to create a Ubuntu based instance, but no
> avail. Originally, I was getting this error from Ansible:
>
>
> PLAY [all]
> ********************************************************************
>
> PLAY [Create instance(s)]
> *****************************************************
>
> TASK: [Launch instances]
> ******************************************************
> failed: [localhost] => {"changed": false, "failed": true}
> msg: Missing required create instance variable
>
> FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting
>
>
> After doing a fair amount of research, I found out that the stable 0.16.0
> version of apache-libcloud did not seem to support Ubuntu, at least based
> on the source code in the gce.py driver. Because of this, I installed the
> development version of the library which actually does have support for
> Ubuntu, at least from what I can see in the source:
>
>
> if (partial_name.startswith('debian') or
> partial_name.startswith('backports') or
> partial_name.startswith('nvme-backports')):
> image = self._match_images('debian-cloud', partial_name)
> elif partial_name.startswith('centos'):
> image = self._match_images('centos-cloud', partial_name)
> elif partial_name.startswith('sles'):
> image = self._match_images('suse-cloud', partial_name)
> elif partial_name.startswith('rhel'):
> image = self._match_images('rhel-cloud', partial_name)
> elif partial_name.startswith('windows'):
> image = self._match_images('windows-cloud', partial_name)
> elif partial_name.startswith('container-vm'):
> image = self._match_images('google-containers', partial_name)
> elif partial_name.startswith('coreos'):
> image = self._match_images('coreos-cloud', partial_name)
> elif partial_name.startswith('opensuse'):
> image = self._match_images('opensuse-cloud', partial_name)
> elif partial_name.startswith('ubuntu'):
> image = self._match_images('ubuntu-os-cloud', partial_name)
>
>
> With this new library, Ansible no longer threw the error above and it now
> went ahead with the play. However, I noticed that no matter what
> combination of the string "ubuntu" I use for the "image" parameter, Ansible
> will always default to creating a CentOS image (I'm guessing that's a
> default somewhere) and so, I'm kind of stuck now as to what could be going
> wrong.
>
> Has anyone experienced similar issues when creating Ubuntu issue? Any
> assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Luis
>
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