Im running some Ansible playbooks on ec2 instances created by OpsWorks.
Part of the automation reads the ec2 tags from the instance. here is the
code for that
- name: gather ec2 facts
action: ec2_facts
- name: get environment tag
action: ec2_tag resource={{ ansible_ec2_instance_id }} region={{
ansible_ec2_placement_region }} state=list
register: allTags
Using that information I then do a group by using one of the tags. The main
reason to do this is to leverage group_vars and do automation that
configures settings differently for environments. In this case the tag name
is environment. Code below
- group_by: key={{ allTags.tags.environment }}
All this worked perfectly in Ansible 1.7. But after 1.8 the playbook fails
with the following error. Is intersting to note that the automation works
fine with instances that are not spun up by OpsWorks. OpsWorks does add
some special tags to the instance. My suspicion is that some of those tags
have special characters that are causing some sort of unicode issue.
TASK: [group_by key={{ allTags.tags.environment }}]
***************************
fatal: [localhost] => template error while templating string: unexpected
char u'\x99' at 2600
I've tried using quotes in the group_by like this but with the same result
- group_by: key="{{ allTags.tags.environment }}"
I also tried using a different way of referencing the dictionary value like
this
- group_by: key={{ allTags['tags']['environment'] }}
But had the same results
I tried the recommendation on this
thread
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/ansible-project/mLgdORSFspo/PXfO76QNfMMJ
but still the same issue.
>From what I've read there are some changes in Jinja that cause this
behaviour but I have not been able to figure out the issue. Anyone has seen
this issue or has some recommendations? Thanks in advance
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