Thanks Michael and and Matt. I have noticed that the group_vars for a group added in add_host are (seemingly) not picked up. Is this correct behaviour?
On 8 Aug 2014, at 7:32 am, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > Correct - inventory files are not re-consulted in the middle of a playbook > run. > > > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote: > add_host is the correct approach. > > > On Wednesday, August 6, 2014, Steven Ringo <[email protected]> wrote: > Having a look at the inventory file immediately after the machine is > provisioned, it does in fact update correctly. > > However it appears that the inventory file is run/read only once at the > beginning of a playbook, so it will not reflect the new host if the deploy > playbook is run by including it after the provisioning playbook. > > Looks like I will need to use add_host then, or find a way to get Ansible to > refresh the inventory in the middle of a play. > > > On 7 Aug 2014, at 12:02 pm, Steven Ringo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> After provisioning a machine on ec2 module, the inventory doesn't reflect >> the new host (using ec2.py). >> >> I am using a tag_name for the target host that comes from the inventory. >> >> I have tried all of the following: >> pause of 60 seconds after provisioning. >> local_action to refresh the cache, calling ec2.py --refresh-cache >> changing the cache_max_age timeout to 0 in ec2.ini >> The other thing I tried was to use not use the inventory script, but to use >> add_host with the same group name as my tag name. This seems hacky though >> and seems also not read the group_vars, which is a problem. >> >> If anyone has any ideas, that would be great. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Steve >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/yWo3VGmNQH4/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f3fb161f-79f2-4b7f-b110-3e05c43c4f43%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/AB2E0A34-3B5C-4990-A8E1-702F92D544DB%40stevenringo.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Matt Martz > [email protected] > http://sivel.net/ > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAD8N0v8ecNyuL%3DQR54D8etyck%2Bbot4AyLCszg3_F7JWvYDDdPg%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/yWo3VGmNQH4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgwVWhVJtyLKc0G8%3D2QhSpk_WUZsOQB8x%3DibEb%2BOzmWbGw%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/2AFC7F55-C19F-4394-B177-EE5520B7B347%40stevenringo.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
