It's confirmed, if you set a variable on a playbook, and add_host and make
new tasks, this variable is not "forwarded" to the next tasks
On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 5:04:03 PM UTC+2, David Villasmil wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've got a playbook that does:
>
> - name: Get db cluster endpoint
> shell: "aws --region=us-east-1 rds describe-db-clusters
> --db-cluster-identifier {{ cluster }}-kam-db"
> register: aws_cluster_res
>
> - set_fact:
> myvar: "{{ aws_cluster_res.stdout | from_json }}"
>
> - set_fact:
> endpoint: "{{ myvar.DBClusters[0].Endpoint }}"
>
>
> and much later on:
>
> - replace:
> dest: /home/admin/myconfig.cfg
> regexp: '^(.*)!\{\{ DB_HOST \}\}(.*)$'
> replace: '\1!{{ endpoint }}\2'
>
> But ansible complaints that it is undefined, eve though it _has_ beed
> defined:
>
> output:
>
> TASK [set_fact]
> *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
> task path: /home/admin/create_instances.yaml:107
> ok: [127.0.0.1] => {
> "ansible_facts": {
> "endpoint": "something.amazonaws.com"
> },
> "changed": false
> }
> Read vars_file 'vars/sts.yml'
> Read vars_file 'vars/default.yml'
>
>
> TASK [Print endpoint]
> *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************
> task path: /home/admin/create_instances.yaml:110
> ok: [127.0.0.1] => {
> "msg": "sonmething.amazonaws.com"
> }
>
>
>
> ....
>
>
> TASK [replace]
> **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
> task path: /home/admin/voice-conf/playbooks/create_instances.yaml:335
> fatal: [18.206.82.39]: FAILED! => {
> "msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The
> error was: 'endpoint' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to have been in
> '/home/admin/create_instances.yaml': line 335, column 5, but may\nbe
> elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe
> offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - replace:\n ^ here\n"
> }
> fatal: [18.206.108.97]: FAILED! => {
> "msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The
> error was: 'endpoint' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to have been in
> '/home/admin/create_instances.yaml': line 335, column 5, but may\nbe
> elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe
> offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - replace:\n ^ here\n"
> }
>
>
> I can't figure out why this is happening, can someone help?
>
> Thanks!
>
> David
>
>
>
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