I have the following tasks: - name: Add new instance to host group add_host: hostname={{ item.public_ip }} groupname=launched with_items: ec2.results[0].instances
- name: set inventory_hostname var add_host: inventory_hostname={{ item.public_dns_name }} groupname=launched with_items: ec2.results[0].instances The first one works correctly but i'm getting the following error in the second one: 'name' is a required argument. Play results below: TASK: [build_base_instance | Add new instance to host group] ****************** ok: [localhost] => (item={u'ramdisk': None, u'kernel': None, u'root_device_type': u'ebs', u'private_dns_name': u'ip-172-31-14-222.eu-central-1.compute.internal', u'tags': {}, u'key_name': u'---', u'public_ip': u'x.x.x.x', u'image_id': u'ami-0af7ce17', u'tenancy': u'default', u'private_ip': u'x.x.x.x', u'groups': {u'sg-61f05408': u'x'}, u'public_dns_name': u'ec2-x-x-x-x.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com', u'state_code': 16, u'id': u'i-6c651dad', u'placement': u'eu-central-1b', u'ami_launch_index': u'0', u'dns_name': u'ec2-x-x-x-x.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com', u'region': u'eu-central-1', u'ebs_optimized': False, u'launch_time': u'2015-08-24T19:35:03.000Z', u'instance_type': u'm3.medium', u'state': u'running', u'root_device_name': u'/dev/sda1', u'hypervisor': u'xen', u'virtualization_type': u'hvm', u'architecture': u'x86_64'}) => {"item": {"ami_launch_index": "0", "architecture": "x86_64", "dns_name": "ec2-x-x-x-x.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com", "ebs_optimized": false, "groups": {"sg-61f05408": "x"}, "hypervisor": "xen", "id": "i-6c651dad", "image_id": "ami-0af7ce17", "instance_type": "m3.medium", "kernel": null, "key_name": "x", "launch_time": "2015-08-24T19:35:03.000Z", "placement": "eu-central-1b", "private_dns_name": "ip-x-x-x-x.eu-central-1.compute.internal", "private_ip": "x.x.x.x", "public_dns_name": "ec2-x-x-x-x.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com", "public_ip": "x.x.x.x", "ramdisk": null, "region": "eu-central-1", "root_device_name": "/dev/sda1", "root_device_type": "ebs", "state": "running", "state_code": 16, "tags": {}, "tenancy": "default", "virtualization_type": "hvm"}, "new_groups": ["launched"], "new_host": "x.x.x.x"} TASK: [build_base_instance | set inventory_hostname var] ********************** fatal: [localhost] => 'name' is a required argument. FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting Thanks for your help -- 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/71876e29-7239-4ed0-817a-f3d4f1d83a07%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.