I accidentally replied to the email - haven't used Google Groups a lot,
sorry about that.
I had actually tried this already. When I do I get this error:
"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error
was: 'new_ami_id' is undefined\
Which is confusing because it seems to me it clearly is being defined.
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:26:37 UTC, Karl Auer wrote:
>
> 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]
> <javascript:>> 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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