Hi Gary, the tag names from the dynamic inventory are brought in as group
names for the instances, so I would use group_vars/TAG_NAME to bring in
those specific variables. Alternatively, you could use the include_vars
module to include YAML files based on variables available (like the tag
name).

Hope that helps!

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Gary Malouf <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'll try to be more clear on the issue.  We have 8 tags/groups per
> environment (staging/production) in different vpcs that need services
> provisioned and updated in EC2:
>
> webservers
> databases
> dashboards
> etc...
>
> Since you can not use a variable from /etc/ansible in the 'hosts:' setting
> in a playbook, we can either
>
> - use different group names for each environment (and hence need different
> plays per)
> - ideally, use the same tag_Name setting across environments and rely on
> the ec2.py/ini combo to filter for the right instances based on vpc
> subnet id
>
> The second case is preferable, but despite filtering by vpc_id in ec2.py,
> the 'exact_count' setting in the ec2 module for provisioning looks at the
> number of instances tagged across vpcs.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to make it only consider the instances that pass
> the instance filters from the dynamic inventory script?
>
> On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 11:49:30 PM UTC-5, Gary Malouf wrote:
>>
>> We are experimenting with a staging and production environment each in
>> their own vpc.  It has been a struggle to use the EC2 module with this
>> setup because despite applying instance filters to ec2. ini, the 'count'
>> tags used in the ec2 module for provisioning count instances across vpcs if
>> they have the same tag.  Ths instance filters are using vpc ids, I can see
>> this works when running a simple list of instances but the exact count
>> setting in the EC2 module counts instances with tags across vpcs anyways.
>>
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