How to write host-specific configuration information to a host I spin up using ec2

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I’ve got a playbook that looks like this:

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Does anybody have any idea about the question below, or how to answer it? Is there a better place to ask for help?

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Hi Chris,

The item you used to create the EC2 instance in the loop should be registered in the corresponding result object as “item”. What about:

  • name: Execute script
    shell: /opt/comp/scripts/init/{{ item[0].item.script }}.sh

with_subelements:

  • ec2.results
  • instances

There are other ways to address some of the issues you ran into (just for future reference):

  • Try copy with delegate_to to drop custom facts (delegate_to will copy from the control machine to the delegated host).
  • Fetch (and/or run) your scripts or dump custom facts during instance creation with ec2 user_data scripting

Good luck!

  • Matt Davis
    Senior Solutions Architect @ Ansible