ec2_ami_search module

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Starting an EC2 instance based off of an AMI returned from the ec2_ami_search module. I’m trying to use an EBS SSD backed instance. The documentation shows ebs, ebs-io1, ebs-ssd, and instance-store as options.

A fragment of my playbook:

  • name: get the latest Ubuntu 14.04 AMI
    ec2_ami_search: distro=ubuntu
    release=trusty
    store=ebs-ssd
    arch=amd64
    virt=hvm
    register: ubuntu_image

This returns:

failed: [localhost] => {“failed”: true}
msg: value of store must be one of: ebs,instance-store, got: ebs-ssd

What am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance.

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Hi Peter, can you share which version of Ansible you’re running? It appears that those options were added in the development branch of Ansible, and will only be available in 1.8+. The documentation does appear to be missing a note to that effect.

Thanks!

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Thanks James, that makes sense. I’m on 1.7.2. I’ll check out the dev branch.