Brian, thank you!
Additional information provided by the IRC chan:
Complex types get stringified using python's default representation. the [
is for start of list, and each string has u'...' denoting that it's a
unicode string
instead of set_fact: instance_id="expression", use set_fact:
instan
"coreaid": [
"i-X"
]
and [u'i-XXX'] are actually the same thing, just displayed differently.
coreaid is a list, with a unicode string, which internally is
represented as [u'i-XXX'], What you are seeing as 'correct' is
JSONified output, that is why you see the difference.
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I just recently updated to 2.3.1.0. I've used set_fact before the upgrade
to set my AWS instance ID to a variable "coreaid".
- name: Save instance ID to coreaid
set_fact:
coreaid: "{{ ec2_asg.instances }}"
- debug: msg="the id= {{ coreaid }}"
- name: Set the instance public IP to a var
