Hi Uditha, Yes I realise that is an option but what I am trying to do is use the in-memory inventory see http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/add_host_module.html
This way I can have the same running playbook perform subsequent tasks on the new hosts once they are online. Cheers, Glyn On Thursday, 24 March 2016 02:42:42 UTC+13, Uditha Desilva wrote: > > That isn't how you invoke a dynamic inventory... > > There's an example of how an openstack dynamic inventory script is used on > in the Ansible.com docs: > http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_dynamic_inventory.html#other-inventory-scripts > > An ansible dynamic inventory script returns valid JSON that defines hosts, > groups, etc. -- and if it wants to return all the info for all nodes at > once, it can set per-host values in a _meta group.7 > > > On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 04:10:04 UTC, Glyn Davies wrote: >> >> Hi Guys, >> >> I am having some issues getting add_host to create a dynamic inventory >> correctly. >> >> Here is the relevant section from my playbook: >> >> >> tasks: >> - name: Connect to Cloud >> # assume RC file has already been sourced >> os_auth: >> >> - name: launch web instances >> os_server: >> name=web0{{ item }} >> flavor={{ flavor }} >> image={{ image }} >> key_name={{ key_name }} >> state=present >> wait=true >> network={{ network }} >> security_groups={{ security_groups }} >> auto_ip=true >> register: newnodes >> with_sequence: >> count={{ count }} >> >> # - debug: >> # var: newnodes >> >> - name: add nodes to runtime inventory >> add_host: >> name={{ item.name }} >> # group=workers >> # ansible_host={{ item.public_v4 }} >> with_items: >> - "{{ newnodes.results.server }}" >> >> >> >> The tasks 'Connect to Cloud' and 'launch web servers' work fine. >> >> I also ran debug on the newnodes variable and it is returning the correct >> data. The problem is that when I try to run the 'add nodes to runtime >> inventory' task I get the following: >> >> [DEPRECATION WARNING]: Skipping task due to undefined Error, in the >> future this will be a fatal error.. This feature will be removed in a >> future release. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting >> deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg. >> >> If I run the playbook with -vvvv I get no further information. I have >> also tried various combinations of the variable name ' >> newnodes.results.server' in the with_items section but no joy. >> >> Anyone able to see what I have missed here? >> >> Cheers, >> Glyn >> >> >> >> >> -- 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/bdd767e9-7c73-4099-99eb-4b469f07188e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
