Create EC2 instance by ansible with ec2: error: unrecognized arguments

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I am newbie to the ansible and follows, https://djaodjin.com/blog/deploying-on-ec2-with-ansible.blog.html, to create a security group and an ec2 instance. The security group is created successfully, but creating ec2 instance is failed by ec2: error: unrecognized arguments: /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-14244… I did set up aws credentials and asnsible variables properly as below

AWS Credentials

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=xxx
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=xxx

EC2 Environment Variables

export ANSIBLE_HOSTS=/etc/ansible/ec2.py
export EC2_INI_PATH=/etc/ansible/ec2.ini

The files and output are showed as follow. Any ideas for this issue? Thanks for your Help!

$ cat group_vars/all

Variables listed here are applicable to all host groups

key_name: sobrr-staging.pem
aws_region: cn-north-1
ami_id: ami-9e0c9ea7
instance_type: m1.small

$ cat basic-create.yml

Basic provisioning example

  • name: Create AWS resources
    hosts: localhost
    connection: local
    gather_facts: False
    tasks:

  • name: Create security group
    ec2_group:
    name: my-security-group
    description: “A Security group”
    region: “{{aws_region}}”
    rules:

  • proto: tcp
    type: ssh
    from_port: 22
    to_port: 22
    cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
    rules_egress:

  • proto: all
    type: all
    cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
    register: basic_firewall

  • name: debug basic_firewall
    debug: ‘msg=“{{ basic_firewall }}”’

  • name: create an EC2 instance
    local_action:
    module: ec2
    key_name: “{{key_name}}”
    region: “{{aws_region}}”
    group_id: “{{basic_firewall.group_id}}”
    instance_type: “{{instance_type}}”
    image: “{{ami_id}}”
    count: 1
    wait: yes
    register: basic_ec2

  • name: debug instance start
    debug: ‘msg=“{{ basic_ec2 }}”’

OUTPUT

ansible-playbook -i /etc/ansible/hosts -vvvv basic-create.yml
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Crypto/Util/number.py:57: PowmInsecureWarning: Not using mpz_powm_sec. You should rebuild using libgmp >= 5 to avoid timing attack vulnerability.
_warn(“Not using mpz_powm_sec. You should rebuild using libgmp >= 5 to avoid timing attack vulnerability.”, PowmInsecureWarning)

PLAY [Create AWS resources] ***************************************************

TASK: [Create security group] *************************************************
region=cn-north-1 description=A Security group name=my-security-group


u’LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1424461765.15-98406246607462/ec2_group; rm -rf /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1424461765.15-98406246607462/ >/dev/null 2>&1’]
ok: [localhost] => {“changed”: false, “group_id”: “sg-63fae101”}

TASK: [debug basic_firewall] **************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
“msg”: “{‘invocation’: {‘module_name’: u’ec2_group’, ‘module_args’: ‘’}, ‘changed’: False, ‘group_id’: ‘sg-63fae101’}”
}

TASK: [create an EC2 instance] ************************************************
<127.0.0.1> instance_type=m1.small image=ami-9e0c9ea7 group_id=sg-63fae101 region=cn-north-1 key_name=sobrr-staging.pem
<127.0.0.1>
<127.0.0.1>
<127.0.0.1>
<127.0.0.1> u’LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/env python /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1424461765.54-184834253412898/ec2 /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1424461765.54-184834253412898/arguments; rm -rf /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1424461765.54-184834253412898/ >/dev/null 2>&1’]
failed: [localhost → 127.0.0.1] => {“failed”: true, “parsed”: false}
usage: ec2 [-h] [–list] [–host HOST] [–refresh-cache]
ec2: error: unrecognized arguments: /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1424461765.54-184834253412898/arguments

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @/home/ec2-user/basic-create.retry

localhost : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1