See my original response. You'll need to use the add_host module to add {{
vmname }} to the inventory if you want to use it on the next play. Also,
you playbook will be much cleaner if you use the URI module rather than
shelling out to curl.
- James
On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 10:58:23 AM UTC-5, Piet83 wrote:
>
> ---
> - hosts: all
>
> pre_tasks:
>
> # Task creates a vm through an api. Register output with vm name
> - name: Create vm from emplate
> command: 'curl https://vm.example.nl/api/create'
> delegate_to: localhost
> register: vm
>
> # Filter out exact vm name
> - name: Define vm variable
> set_fact: vmname="{{ (vm.stdout.split(' ')[2]) |
> regex_replace('},$','') }}"
> delegate_to: localhost
>
> - name: Wait for running vm
> shell: 'curl https://vm.example.nl/api/{{ vmname }}'
> delegate_to: localhost
> register: result
> until: result.stdout.find("running") != -1
> retries: 15
> delay: 20
>
> # This tasks makes sure the newly created vm is in the inventory file
> - name: Regenerate vm inventory
> shell: /scripts/generate_vm_invantory.sh
> delegate_to: localhost
>
> # Continue play on newly created vm, the problem is here. vmname is not
> getting passed to hosts:
> - hosts: '{{ vmname }}'
>
> # Roles to configure newly created vm
> roles:
> - common
> - apt-updates
> - webserver
>
>
>
> Ok, the above is more like my actual playbook. I'm using a shell script to
> regenerate the inventory file which I use to run the above playbook. The
> variable vmname is set and contains the vmname but it won't get passed to:
> hosts: '{{ vmname }}'
>
>
>
>
>
> Op dinsdag 20 januari 2015 15:39:00 UTC+1 schreef James Martin:
>>
>> Assuming your first task returns an ip address, if you want to reference
>> it, you'd need to use {{ ip.stdout }}. Alternately, you could use the
>> http://docs.ansible.com/uri_module.html instead of using curl, and you
>> could just use {{ ip }}.
>>
>> You'll also have to add it to the inventory before you could use it on
>> the following play, see the http://docs.ansible.com/add_host_module.html
>> module.
>>
>>
>> If you want extra credit, write a module for your API that provisions
>> instances and a dynamic inventory script :).
>>
>> - James
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 8:37:03 AM UTC-5, Piet83 wrote:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> - hosts: all
>>>
>>> pre_tasks:
>>>
>>> # Task creates a vm through an api. Register output with vm name
>>> - name: Create vm from emplate
>>> command: 'curl https://vm.example.nl/api/create'
>>> delegate_to: localhost
>>> register: ip
>>>
>>> # Continue play on newly created vm
>>> - hosts: '{{ ip }}'
>>>
>>> # Roles to configure newly created vm
>>> roles:
>>> - common
>>> - apt-updates
>>> - webserver
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to create a playbook to provision a virtual machine and apply
>>> some roles to that vm without knowing name or ip. When provisioning the vm
>>> through our API it spits out the vmname and ipadress to the stdout. When I
>>> register the stdout to a variable I can't pass it as you see above to: -
>>> hosts: '{{ ip }}'
>>> it always says: skipping: no hosts matched
>>>
>>> Is the above possible? Or is it possible to use delegate_to for a role.
>>> Maybe there a other ways?
>>>
>>
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