Hi Toshio. Thanks a lot for the reply. Here is the debug output of what is
being returned. Thanks in advance
TASK: [debug var=allTags]
*****************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"var": {
"allTags": {
"changed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": "resource=i-be204f6e region=us-east-1
state=list",
"module_name": "ec2_tag"
},
"play": "setup.yml",
"role": null,
"state": "ok",
"tags": {
"Name": "analytics-storm-temp - storm1",
"environment": "dev",
"opsworks:instance": "storm1",
"opsworks:layer:storm": "storm",
"opsworks:stack": "analytics-storm-temp",
"role": "storm"
},
"task": "get environment tag"
}
}
}
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I'd be interested to know how that character is getting in there and
> what you expect it to be. u'\x99' seems to be a c1 control character
> so it's probably not something that jinja should be expected to
> handle. But the character might originally be a byte in an encoding
> that was unexpected that was mangled in the decoding process. Need
> more information about what is being returned as your tags to figure
> this out.
>
> -Toshio
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:05 AM, Andres Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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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