I'm pulling data from EC2 instance metadata (from an IAM instance profile). The shell commands are:
curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/PullCredentials > creds.txt access=`cat /home/ubuntu/creds.txt | grep "AccessKeyId" | cut -d':' -f2 | tr -d ' ' | tr -d '"' | tr -d ','` My playbook fragment: - name: get IAM role creds shell: curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/PullCredentials > creds.txt - name: set env variables command: access=`cat /home/ubuntu/creds.txt | grep "AccessKeyId" | cut -d':' -f2 | tr -d ' ' | tr -d '"' | tr -d ','` When I run this manually, the creds.txt file is created, and the cat | grep | cut etc works fine. When it runs: TASK: [get IAM role creds] **************************************************** changed: [****] TASK: [set env variables] ***************************************************** failed: [****] => {"cmd": "'access=`cat' /home/ubuntu/creds.txt '|' grep AccessKeyId '|' cut -d: -f2 '|' tr -d ' ' '|' tr -d '\"' '|' tr -d ',`'", "failed": true, "rc": 2} msg: [Errno 2] No such file or directory If I set everything after command: in quotes, I get a parser error: ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script, ansible-qa-ami.yml Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line 197, column 82 - name: set env variables command: 'access=`cat /home/ubuntu/creds.txt | grep "AccessKeyId" | cut -d':' -f2 | tr -d ' ' | tr -d '"' | tr -d ','`' ^ So I seem to have an issue with colons, quotes, and/or back ticks. Any suggestions are very welcome. -- 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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e7d876a3-7731-417f-9b0f-15ba8d820a15%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.