This module says in the title:
amazon.aws.ec2_metadata_facts module – Gathers facts (instance metadata) about remote hosts within EC2
However, no matter what I do the metadata returned is all on the ansible host itself an not on the designated hos tin the playbook.
- name: Build AMI from ec2 instance
hosts: "{{ host }}"
connection: local
gather_facts: true
tasks:
#this allows us to get facts about the AWS environment and the ec2 instance
- name: get ec2 facts
action: amazon.aws.ec2_metadata_facts
delegate_to: "{{ host }}"
register: metadata
- name: set some basic facts
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
aws_region: "{{ ansible_ec2_placement_region }}"
#env: "{{ ansible_ec2_instance_tags.Name.split('-')[0] }}"
#cust_id: "{{ ansible_ec2_instance_tags.Name.split('-')[1] }}"
inst_id: "{{ ansible_ec2_instance_id }}"
ami_name: "{{ env }}-{{ cust_id }}-{{ app_name }}-{{ now(utc=false,fmt='%Y%m%d-%H%M%S') }}"
- name: show instance_id
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ inst_id }}"
{{ host }} is the name from the inventory list that matches a web application server. However, the instance id returned is always the instance id of the ansible server, not the remote host.
