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Hi all!

I am trying to use the nova_compute plugin and keep on getting:

ERROR: nova_compute is not a legal parameter in an Ansible Playbook

ansible-doc, if I run it, shows that the module is there as well as looking in /usr/share/ansible/cloud/ (nova_compute is there). This is ansible 1.5.3.

I’m using the example found in the actual documentation:

  • nova_compute:
    state: present
    login_username: xxx

login_password: xxx
login_tenant_name: xxx-project1
name: vm1
auth_url: https://region-b.geo-1.identity.hpcloudsvc.com:35357/v2.0/tokens
region_name: region-b.geo-1
image_id: 9302692b-b787-4b52-a3a6-daebb79cb498
key_name: test
wait_for: 200
flavor_id: 101
security_groups: default
nics:

  • net-id: 7da74520-9d5e-427b-a508-213c84e69616

So, what else does one need here? I simply want to get familiar with using this to launch instances and then manage them. Is there any simplified document that demonstrates this?

Regards and thank you!

Patrick

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Can we see this in the full playbook context?

3

Thanks Michael,

I actually found a bug (region wasn’t being supplied to nova client “Client()”) in the code and submitted a pull request to the nova_compute driver. My very simplistic example that now works with my fix, using HP Cloud, is the following:

# Creates a new VM and attaches to a network and passes metadata to the instance
- name: launch a nova instance
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - name: launch an instance
    nova_compute:
      state: present
      login_username: myuser
      login_password: xxxx
      login_tenant_name: myuser-project1
      name: vm1
      auth_url: https://region-b.geo-1.identity.hpcloudsvc.com:35357/v2.0/
      region_name: region-b.geo-1
      image_id: 9302692b-b787-4b52-a3a6-daebb79cb498
      key_name: test
      wait_for: 200
      flavor_id: 101
      security_groups: default
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Yep, saw your ticket – thanks.

Some testing on this to make sure it doesn’t break normalish OpenStack while fixing your case might be welcome if possible, should someone want to give it a shot.

5

It’s not clear what the resolution here was. I’m getting the same error with the latest master branch.

6

Did you mean “nova_compute is not a valid…”.

Sounds like you have an indentation error in your playbook possibly, can you show an example?