Thanks James, I will say I misread what count_tag did.. I ended up writing myself a custom Library in the end though
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 8:22:41 PM UTC+2, James Martin wrote: > > Nico, > > Please see: http://docs.ansible.com/ec2_module.html > > Specifically the "count" and "count_tag" options. > > - James > > On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 4:59:52 PM UTC-4, Nico K. wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I might be doing things backwards, but I'm gonna ask anyway. >> >> In my scenario, I first add the host_vars/new_host and only then do I run >> the ec2 create task (which is delegated to localhost obviously). >> After the instance is created, all variables already exist since they are >> defined in host_vars,so far so good. >> >> The only problem with this approach is that it doesn't seem to be >> re-entrant, since the ec2 task will create a new instance every single time >> it's called. >> Is there a way to have the 'ec2' task only spawn the instance when it >> does not exist yet (for example based on it's tags?) >> >> Thanks, >> Nico. >> > -- 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/09d294df-3c94-4e38-bad2-217e27993bb3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
