Already got this on github, yes, but the problem is the 'environment' variable in Ansible is reserved.
The "environment" keyword stores variables here. We may consider changing this to ansible_environment as this occasionally happens. On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Michael Peters <michael00pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've filed it as 2 separate issues since they could be related but > different (one completing but with the wrong results and the other > failing with the traceback): > > https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/7833 > https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/7835 > > But I'm still a bit confused about the why the first attempt I > mentioned is failing. It's not throwing the traceback, it's just > giving weird results. Is this still a YAML error? Can I write my YAML > in a way that doesn't trigger this problem? Or is there a limit on > which values can be templated? > > Thanks, > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:18 AM, James Cammarata <jcammar...@ansible.com> > wrote: > > This is definitely the same YAML parsing error, but because it's > happening > > in the complex args it doesn't seem to be triggering the same error > > detection/handling code. Could you please open a github issue for this as > > well? > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Michael Peters < > michael00pet...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> I'm trying to create a VPC with certain tags which are derived from > >> variables. I feel like I can't find the right YAML/Jinja/whatever > >> syntax to make it work though. > >> > >> At first I tried setting them in the resource_tags directly when using > >> the ec2_vpc module like so: > >> > >> - name: Create VPC for new environment > >> local_action: > >> module: ec2_vpc > >> state: present > >> cidr_block: 10.0.0.0/16 > >> resource_tags: { "Name": "marketplace-{{ environment }}" } > >> region: "{{ aws_region }}" > >> dns_hostnames: true > >> dns_support: true > >> internet_gateway: true > >> validate_certs: true > >> instance_tenancy: default > >> wait: true > >> subnets: [] > >> route_tables: [] > >> register: new_vpc > >> > >> While this executes without errors it results in a VPC with the Name > >> tag of "marketplace-{}" which is obviously not what I want. > >> > >> And if my Name tag starts out with a "{" like "{{ environment > >> }}-marketplace" then I get this error: > >> > >> failed: [localhost] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false} > >> invalid output was: Traceback (most recent call last): > >> File > >> > "/home/mpeters/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403121708.45-114116167152383/ec2_vpc", > >> line 2001, in <module> > >> main() > >> File > >> > "/home/mpeters/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403121708.45-114116167152383/ec2_vpc", > >> line 599, in main > >> (vpc_dict, new_vpc_id, subnets_changed, changed) = > >> create_vpc(module, vpc_conn) > >> File > >> > "/home/mpeters/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403121708.45-114116167152383/ec2_vpc", > >> line 278, in create_vpc > >> previous_vpc = find_vpc(module, vpc_conn, id, cidr_block) > >> File > >> > "/home/mpeters/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403121708.45-114116167152383/ec2_vpc", > >> line 240, in find_vpc > >> if resource_tags and > >> set(resource_tags.items()).issubset(set(vpc_tags.items())): > >> TypeError: unhashable type: 'dict' > >> > >> So I though, maybe ec2_vpc does run the Jinja templating on the values > >> in the resource_tags dictionary. So I then tried to create the VPC > >> with a dummy name tag, save it's vpc_id and then use ec2_tag to add > >> the tags in a separate task: > >> > >> - name: Tag the new VPC > >> local_action: ec2_tag resource={{ new_vpc.vpc_id }} region={{ > >> aws_region }} state=present > >> args: > >> tags: > >> Name: "marketplace-{{ environment }}" > >> > >> But this results in the same thing (vpc with a Name tag of > >> "marketplace-{}" instead of something like "marketplace-branch-XYZ". > >> > >> Am I confused about the YAML/Jinja syntax to accomplish what I want or > >> is using variables in EC2 tags not supported? 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