Thanks for the reply, Dan. Do you have the code available somewhere?

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Dan Vaida <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm doing this by registering the results of the ec2 provisioning task and
> then cycle through the hosts in a subsequent task for creating the dns
> records.
>
>
> On Monday, 29 December 2014 17:09:03 UTC+1, Navid Paya wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> I'm trying to automate creating and destroying our staging environment.
>> So far, I have a playbook to create the cluster:
>>
>> ---
>> - name: Launch an EC2 instance from our our latest AMI in staging
>>   hosts: localhost
>>   connection: local
>>   gather_facts: no
>>   tasks:
>>   - name: Start the new EC2 instance
>>     ec2:
>>       image:  ami-xxxxxxxx
>>       region: ap-southeast-1
>>       zone:   ap-southeast-1b
>>       instance_type: m3.medium
>>       vpc_subnet_id: subnet-xxxxxxxx
>>       group_id: ['sg-xxxxxxxx', 'sg-xxxxxxxx']
>>       key_name: blahblah-deploy
>>       instance_tags:
>>         Cluster:  grabqa01
>>         Name:     "{{ item}}.grabqa01.net"
>>         Env:      staging
>>         Role:     "{{ item }}"
>>     with_items:
>>       - redis
>>       - postgresql
>>       - frontend
>>       - dispatcher-athena
>>       - dispatcher-hermes
>>       - dispatcher-listener
>>       - dispatcher-processor
>>       - poi
>>
>> Now since EC2 instances take forever to initialize, I give it 20 minutes
>> and then run another playbook to create DNS records for the created
>> instances using Route53. I wanted to do this which would be so nice if it
>> worked:
>>
>> - name: Set DNS Records
>>   hosts: 'tag_Cluster_grabqa01:&tag_Role_{{ item }}'
>>   tasks:
>>   - route53:
>>       aws_access_key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>       aws_secret_key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>       command: create
>>       zone: grabqa01.net
>>       record: {{ item }}.grabqa01.net
>>       type: A
>>       ttl: 600
>>       value: "{{ ansible_all_ipv4_addresses }}"
>>     delegate_to: localhost
>>   with_items:
>>     - redis
>>     - postgresql
>>     - frontend
>>     - dispatcher-athena
>>     - dispatcher-hermes
>>     - dispatcher-listener
>>     - dispatcher-processor
>>     - poi
>>
>> Basically, I want to find the hosts matching a search and then create a
>> DNS record pointing at them. What would be the best way to do that? I'd
>> rather not have to write a block for every single role I have.
>>
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