Well, "async" is totally a bust. I got a message:
fatal: [localhost] => lookup plugins (with_*) cannot be used with async
tasks
On Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:17:48 PM UTC-4, Kurt Yoder wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> I anticipate provisioning 10-20 VMs using Ansible, then assigning floating
> IPs to each, then waiting for SSH to become available for each VM. I would
> like to do this in parallel instead of serially. Specifically:
>
>
> - Start the VMs, but don't block
> - Assign the IPs, but don't block
> - Wait on SSH until all VMs respond
>
>
> I saw the nova_compute "wait: 'no'" option, but when I use it I get a
> stack trace:
>
> failed: [localhost] => (item=1) => {"failed": true, "item": 1, "parsed":
>> false}
>> invalid output was: Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File
>> "/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1405028178.0-234314980043958/nova_compute",
>>
>> line 1490, in <module>
>> main()
>> File
>> "/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1405028178.0-234314980043958/nova_compute",
>>
>> line 266, in main
>> _create_server(module, nova)
>> File
>> "/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1405028178.0-234314980043958/nova_compute",
>>
>> line 194, in _create_server
>> private = [ x['addr'] for x in getattr(server,
>> 'addresses').itervalues().next() if x['OS-EXT-IPS:type'] == 'fixed']
>> StopIteration
>>
>
> Perhaps I'm using it incorrectly:
>
> - name: Launch cluster VM on Openstack
>> nova_compute:
>> name: "{{ os_username }}_cluster1"
>> state: present
>> login_username: "{{ os_username }}"
>> login_tenant_name: "{{ os_tenant }}"
>> login_password: "{{ os_password }}"
>> image_id: "{{ os_image_id }}"
>> key_name: "{{ os_username }}_controller_key"
>> wait: "no"
>> flavor_id: "{{ os_flavor_id }}"
>> auth_url: "{{ os_url }}"
>> user_data: "#cloud-config\nmanage_etc_hosts: true"
>>
>
>
> So, two questions:
>
>
> 1. Am I using "wait" correctly?
> 2. Should I use "wait" to get to my desired parallel VM launch, as
> described above, or should I use something else, e.g. "async"?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Kurt
>
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