Ahhh.....thank you! That was the issue after all. I changed the instance
name and it fixed the problem. I was confused because it was talking about
parameter filters.

Thanks again,
Guy

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Baraa Basata <bbas...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The error message here is the RDS API, and it suggests to me that the
> instance_name contains invalid characters. The API response says that RDS
> instance identifiers must have "only ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens;
> and must not end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens".
>
> The underscore character that you have in the instance_name is not in that
> list of valid characters.
>
> -Baraa
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 6:23:45 PM UTC-4, Guy Knights wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting the following error when I use the rds module:
>>
>> failed: [localhost] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false}
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File
>> "/Users/guy/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1436911513.8-147068920945542/rds",
>> line 2822, in <module>
>>     main()
>>   File
>> "/Users/guy/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1436911513.8-147068920945542/rds",
>> line 1012, in main
>>     invocations[module.params.get('command')](module, conn)
>>   File
>> "/Users/guy/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1436911513.8-147068920945542/rds",
>> line 645, in create_db_instance
>>     result = conn.get_db_instance(instance_name)
>>   File
>> "/Users/guy/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1436911513.8-147068920945542/rds",
>> line 415, in get_db_instance
>>     raise e
>> boto.exception.JSONResponseError: JSONResponseError: 400 Bad Request
>> {'RequestId': '673d1f59-2a74-11e5-af29-2dbda5511805', 'Error':
>> {'Message': 'The parameter Filter: db-instance-id is not a valid
>> identifier. Identifiers must begin with a letter; must contain only ASCII
>> letters, digits, and hyphens; and must not end with a hyphen or contain two
>> consecutive hyphens.', 'Code': 'InvalidParameterValue', 'Type': 'Sender'}}
>>
>>
>> FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting
>>
>> The task config is as follows:
>>
>>     - name: provision rds master
>>       rds:
>>         command: create
>>         instance_name: "{{ wl_name }}_db_master"
>>         db_engine: MySQL
>>         db_name: "{{ db_name }}"
>>         instance_type: db.m3.large
>>         username: "{{ db_username }}"
>>         password: "{{ wl_name}}_db_password"
>>         size: 50
>>         wait: yes
>>         wait_timeout: 600
>>         multi_zone: no
>>         subnet: "{{ wl_name }}-rds-sg"
>>         tags:
>>           Application: "{{ wl_name }}"
>>           Environment: prod
>>         region: us-west-1
>>
>> I guess it's a problem with the lookup to check if the instance already
>> exists, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to be using as the lookup
>> parameter. Does anyone know why it's wrong, and how to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Guy
>>
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