You need to wrap wrap the variable up in curly braces so that it is
interpreted rather than taken literally.
I.e., where you have:
new_ami_id: ami.results[0].image_id
you need:
new_ami_id: "{{ ami.results[0].image_id }}"
Regards, K.
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 2:14 AM shaneoh1980 McP <[email protected]>
wrote:
> After more searching I also tried this:
>
> ---
> - hosts: webservers
> remote_user: ubuntu
> tasks:
> - name: create an ami
> ec2_ami:
> region: eu-west-2
> instance_id: i-0771xxxxxxxxxx
> name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{
> ansible_date_time.iso8601_basic_short }}"
> tags:
> Name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{
> ansible_date_time.iso8601_basic_short }}"
> register: ami
>
>
> - name: set ami id
> set_fact:
> new_ami_id: ami.results[0].image_id
>
>
> - pause:
> seconds: 60
>
>
> - name: copy AMI to a different region
> ec2_ami_copy:
> source_region: eu-west-2
> source_image_id: "{{ new_ami_id }}"
> name: "{{ new_ami_id }}"
> region: eu-west-1
>
> But again, Ansible seems to interpret this literally:
>
> ami.results[0].image_id
>
> Rather than finding the ID of the newly created AMI.
>
> On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 12:04:52 UTC, shaneoh1980 McP wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to create a playbook which does the following:
>>
>>
>> - creates an image of an AWS instance
>> - copies the image to a different region
>> - installs updates to the instance
>>
>>
>> I can do all of this apart from getting the AMI to copy to a different
>> region. I've tried a few things but this is my current playbook (this is
>> only for the AMI creation and copying, installing updates is handled
>> separately).
>>
>> - hosts: webservers
>> remote_user: ubuntu
>> tasks:
>> - name: create an ami
>> ec2_ami:
>> region: eu-west-2
>> instance_id: i-0771a2e4289c057e9
>> name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{
>> ansible_date_time.iso8601_basic_short }}"
>> tags:
>> Name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{
>> ansible_date_time.iso8601_basic_short }}"
>>
>>
>> - name: set ID name
>> set_fact:
>> new_ami_name: ec2_ami.image_id
>>
>>
>> - pause:
>> seconds: 60
>>
>>
>> - name: copy AMI to a different region
>> ec2_ami_copy:
>> source_region: eu-west-2
>> source_image_id: "{{ new_ami_name }}"
>> name: "{{ new_ami_name }}"
>> region: eu-west-1
>>
>> For which the creation, setting fact, and pause work, but on the last
>> part I get this error output:
>>
>> An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback,
>> use -vvv. The error was: ClientError: An error occurred (InvalidAMIID.
>> Malformed) when calling the CopyImage operation: Invalid id:
>> "ec2_ami.image_id" (expecting "ami-...")
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I've tried a few different things I'm fairly new to Ansible, but
>> basically I can't figure out how to pass the image_id of the newly created
>> AMI to the next play so that it can use this as the basis of the copying.
>>
>> I can see clearly that it's not registering the image_id as it's saying
>> it's not in the expected "ami-" format, but I'm stuck from there.
>>
>>
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