Never mind that erroneous include. It's now properly aligned and Ansible
doesn't get surprised anymore by what I'm including :)
On Tuesday, 11 November 2014 16:39:00 UTC+1, Dan Vaida wrote:
>
> Greetings everyone!
>
> For a given reason, I need to handle some Route53 records for my EC2's
> EIPs.
> The instances are part of the [all] group in my hosts file.
>
> Obviously, the 'setup' module is not aware of EIPs. But the ec2_facts
> module is.
>
> Right now, I'm trying to wrap my head around this design, although there
> will soon be a VPN tunnel that's gonna simply render Ansible to interact
> with a Bind server, thus making this whole playbook obsolete, but
> nevertheless, something nice to have around.
>
> I know I could probably achieve what I want with an external inventory
> tool like ec2.py but I want to see first if I can do it the "normal" way.
>
> I only need to touch one zone in Route53, essentially by creating/updating
> an A record like so:
>
> - name: updating Route53 records
> hosts: localhost
> connection: local
> gather_facts: False
> tasks:
> # if we have the records, replace them if they do not match. if we
> don't have them, just create them.
> - local_action: route53 command=create zone=domain.com record={{
> ??ansible_hostname?? }}.zone.com type=A value={{
> ??item.ansible_ec2_public_ipv4?? }} overwrite=yes ttl=300
> with_items: facts
> register: dnsrec_update
>
> - name: showing the results of the create task
> debug: var=dnsrec_update
>
> The above would be included by the following:
> ---
> - name: list all ec2 instances
> hosts: all:!localhost
> tasks:
>
> - name: gather facts
> action: ec2_facts
> register: facts
>
> - debug: var=facts
>
> - name: get the hostname
> action: setup
>
> - debug: var={{ ansible_hostname }}
>
>
> ###here's where I'm stuck
>
> - include: route53.yml
>
> You can see that all I was doing is to simply play around with no
> direction in mind.
> Ansible will not like the include because of the gather_facts and so on
> and so forth.
>
> Maybe someone can share some tips. If it's not desirable like intended, I
> will just go for ec2.py
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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