You can use ansible to generate the cloudformation template, so you can use
any variables from your ansible inventory/vars/etc.
For instance using a 'template' task.
Then once that is done, the result can by used by cloudformation.
I have no idea how this may (or may not) fit into whatever work flow you
have.
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 16:29, 'Tony' via Ansible Project <
ansible-project@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Can you expand on that please Sir?
>
> On Tuesday, 12 October 2021 at 15:26:37 UTC+1 dick....@geant.org wrote:
>
>> You can let ansible generate the cloud formation template and then it
>> will work
>>
>> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 14:51, 'Tony' via Ansible Project <
>> ansible...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry I think you may have misunderstood what I am trying to accomplish.
>>>
>>> I need to pass an ansible variable to a cloudformation template yml file.
>>>
>>> I believe I need to do some form of templating with j2, but looking for
>>> pointers.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 12 October 2021 at 13:13:36 UTC+1 mikee...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> $ ansible-playbook -e variable=value
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 12, 2021, at 04:56, 'Tony' via Ansible Project <
>>>> ansible...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to use an ansible variable in my AWS cloudformation
>>>> template, see below red where I am trying to use the variable from Ansible.
>>>>
>>>> Parameters:
>>>>
>>>> Environment:
>>>> Description: 'Environment definition.'
>>>> Type: 'String'
>>>> Default: 'Dev'
>>>>
>>>> Resources:
>>>>
>>>> VPC:
>>>> Type: 'AWS::EC2::VPC'
>>>> Properties:
>>>> CidrBlock:
>>>> "{{ ansible variable here }}"
>>>> EnableDnsSupport: true
>>>> EnableDnsHostnames: true
>>>> InstanceTenancy: 'default'
>>>> Tags:
>>>> - Key: 'Environment'
>>>> Value:
>>>> Ref: 'Environment'
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how to pass this on to Ansible?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
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