ec2_facts and Windows

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I’m hoping that I can get some help with using ansible to manage AWS Windows instances.

Firstly, l am new to ansible and Windows systems administration, but I’m pretty good with linux.

I am trying to write a playbook that deploys release artifacts to a Windows host. One of the first tasks in the playbook is to remove the Windows instance from a load balancer. I’ve already had success with removing a Linux instance from a load balancer using ec2_facts action and the ec2_elb module. When I try to run the same tasks with a Windows host, I’m getting this error for ec2_facts:

fatal: [10.200.0.38] => module ec2_facts not found in configured module paths. Additionally, core modules are missing. If this is a checkout, run 'git submodule update --init --recursive' to correct this problem.

Any advice and guidance will be very much appreciated. Thanks!

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Hey

If you are using ansible from a source (git checkout) then just do what the message says and run

git submodule update --init --recursive

This will then pick up the modules (which are stored in git submodules) and you should be good to go.

Hope that helps,

Jon

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J Hawkesworth <j.r.hawkesworth <at> googlemail.com> writes:

HeyIf you are using ansible from a source (git checkout) then just do

what the message says and rungit submodule update --init --recursiveThis
will then pick up the modules (which are stored in git submodules) and you
should be good to go.Hope that helps,JonOn Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at
9:31:49 PM UTC+1, Julie Reier wrote:I'm hoping that I can get some help with
using ansible to manage AWS Windows instances.Firstly, l am new to ansible
and Windows systems administration, but I'm pretty good with linux.I am
trying to write a playbook that deploys release artifacts to a Windows host.
One of the first tasks in the playbook is to remove the Windows instance
from a load balancer. I've already had success with removing a Linux
instance from a load balancer using ec2_facts action and the ec2_elb module.
When I try to run the same tasks with a Windows host, I'm getting this error
for ec2_facts:

fatal: [10.200.0.38] => module ec2_facts not found in configured module

paths. Additionally, core modules are missing. If this is a checkout, run
'git submodule update --init --recursive' to correct this problem.

Any advice and guidance will be very much appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks Jon. We did try that, but we are still getting the error about
ec2_facts not found in configured module paths. Note that the ec2_facts
module is found when running for linux hosts.

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When running against windows hosts, Ansible will only find modules that have a .ps1 prefix. ec2_facts is a Linux only module.

I'm actually working on aa windows version at the moment and will hopefully submit a PR in the next week or so.