Kai,
Thanks for the help! This works beautifully.
On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 1:46:48 AM UTC-4, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>
> On 20. okt. 2017 06:08, Ken Jenney wrote:
> > I use a script to find an available IP on my network and then assign
> that
> > IP to a system. The system is up and running with the new IP but
> > wait_for_host fails. It looks like the newline is causing issues:
> >
> > - name: Find a free IP
> > local_action: script files/find_free_ip.py {{ startip }} {{ endip }}
> > register: freeip
> > become: "no"
> >
> >
> > - name: Assign the correct IP and Hostname to the VM
> > script: files/set_ip_and_hostname.sh {{ initialip }} {{ freeip.stdout
> }}
> > {{ hostname }}
> > changed_when: "False"
> > delegate_to: "{{ initialip }}"
> >
> >
> > - name: Wait for VM to become available
> > local_action: wait_for host={{ freeip.stdout }} port=22 delay=1 \
> > state=started timeout=300
> > become: "no"
> >
> >
> > fatal: [nj-kvm02 -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "elapsed":
> 300
> > , "failed": true, "msg": "Timeout when waiting for 192.168.1.147\n:22"}
> >
> > How can I strip the newline character and just store the bare string in
> a
> > variable for re-use?
> >
>
> According to
> http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#list-of-builtin-filters
> you have the trim filter.
>
> {{ freeip.stdout | trim }}
>
> Storing for reuse you could use set_fact module.
> - set_fact:
> vm_ip: '{{ freeip.stdout | trim }}'
>
> --
> Kai Stian Olstad
>
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