Hi All,

I'm using a playbook to create an instance. Essentially, I've modified the 
code snippet on example 4 here -> http://docs.ansible.com/guide_aws.html

>From the command_line, I pass in a variable "instance_name", which I use to 
set the tags for the EC2 instance and the hostname for the instance I just 
created.

The below code snippet works fine on Mac (Ansible 1.7.2), but fails on 
Debian 8.0 with the same version of Ansible 1.7.2. 

What am I doing wrong? Or is this something with the code?

- hosts: localhost

  connection: local

  gather_facts: False

  vars:
      instance_name: "somename" 
  -tasks:

--snipped--
--snipped--

# Connect to the node and gather facts, including the instance-id. These 
facts 
# are added to inventory hostvars for the duration of the playbook's 
execution 
# Typical "provisioning" tasks would go in this playbook. 

- hosts: ec2hosts 
  gather_facts: True 
  user: admin 
  sudo: True 

  tasks: 
    # fetch instance data from the metadata servers in ec2 
    - ec2_facts:

    # show all known facts for this host 
    - debug: var=hostvars[inventory_hostname] 

    # just show the instance-id 
    - debug: msg="{{ 
hostvars[inventory_hostname]['ansible_ec2_instance_id'] }}" 
 
    - name: set hostname to {{ instance_name }} 
      hostname: 
        name: "{{ instance_name }}"


The error I get on debian is:

TASK: [set hostname to {{ instance_name }}] 
*********************************** 


fatal: [54.xx.xx.xx] => One or more undefined variables: 'instance_name' is 
undefined 

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting 

PLAY RECAP 
********************************************************************


On the Mac (Yosemite), this part goes without any incident:

TASK: [set hostname to somename] 
*************************************************

changed: [54.xx.xx.xx]


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