If gather_facts is false and node is unreachable, how are you going to
retrieve hostvars[item]['ec2_id'] ? Is it statically declared in your
inventory file?
On Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 10:29:17 AM UTC-5, John Peters wrote:
>
> Any clue as to how to accomplish this?
>
> My Ansible Tower inventory has a list of hosts in it, all in 'stopped'
> state.
>
> I'd like to use that inventory, assign it to a playbook, that will loop
> through each machine in the inventory, from the *localhost*, and issue a
> command to start the instance to AWS.
>
> I've tried several different ways to do this, but to no avail.
>
> It seems that because I'm specifying an inventory to the job, and that
> inventory only has stopped instances in it, there's no way to execute a
> task on the localhost, loop through that inventory, and start them, one by
> one?
>
> Here is some code that contains all the different lines I've tried...
>
> ---
> - name: Start EC2 Instances
> hosts: localhost # also tried 'all' here
> connection: local
> gather_facts: false
> tasks:
> - name: inventory_hostname var
> debug:
> msg: "{{ hostvars[inventory_hostname] }}"
> with_inventory_hostnames: all
> delegate_to: localhost
>
> - name: hostvars item
> debug:
> msg: "{{ hostvars[item] }}"
> with_inventory_hostnames: all
> delegate_to: localhost
>
> - name: Start EC2 Instances Task
> ec2_instance: running
> local_action:
> module: ec2
> instance_ids={{hostvars[inventory_hostname]['ec2_id']}}
> region="{{ region | default('us-east-1') }}"
> state=running
> when: hostvars[item]['ec2_id'] is defined
> with_inventory_hostnames: all
> delegate_to: localhost
>
>
>
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