Hostnames with EC2 inventory plugin

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Hi,

I’m testing the new Amazon EC2 dynamic inventory plugin. I need to set the host names to the “Name” tag, but I don’t understand the documentation. Reading this: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/inventory/aws_ec2.html I understand I should write something like this:

`

    hostnames:
      - tag:Name=Name

`

But it doesn’t work. Also tried:

`

    hostnames:
      - tag-Key:Name

`

With no result. Also checked https://www.ansible.com/blog/dynamic-inventory-past-present-future, but gives no additional information about how to do it. Do you know the way to set inventory hostname to the Name tag? It’s the configuration I’m using to test:

`
plugin: aws_ec2
boto_profile: default
regions:

Regions to include in the inventory

  • us-east-1
    filters:

Criteria to include hosts in the inventory

tag:Environment: staging
instance-state-name: running
hostnames:

  • tag:Name
    #- private-dns-name
    strict_permissions: False

`

Regards,
Oscar

2

The inventory plugin does not currently have useful support for setting hostnames from tags. I submitted a pull request (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35880) to add this functionality, but it hasn’t been merged yet.

3

Thank you very much for the information, and for the work! seems like ansible developers accepeted it, wich are great news.

Regards,
Oscar