Incorrect dynamic script source link - AWS EC2

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HI Team,

On page https://ansible-docs.readthedocs.io/zh/stable-2.0/rst/intro_dynamic_inventory.html#example-aws-ec2-external-inventory-script

Link to ec2 dynamic python inventory script, i see 404 not found error. Can anyone assist me please ?

Thanks,
Parth

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Nor the link - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/contrib/inventory works which all users on youtube vedios and web blogs used. May be domain changed ? Neither raw github user content domain worked instead github.com in this URL.

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Hi Parth,

You are using docs which are not official docs. Also, EC2 external inventory script is replaced by aws_ec2 inventory plugin.

You can find it here - https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/blob/main/plugins/inventory/aws_ec2.py

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Ahh okay thanks buddy. So below link is official ansible doc site right ?

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_dynamic_inventory.html

Thanks,
P

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Yes, you may want to refer https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/amazon/aws/aws_ec2_inventory.html for aws_ec2.

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Using dynamic inventory plugin - https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/inventory.html#using-inventory-plugins

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Has script been tested and working fine ? I am getting syntax error.

[ansible@ip-172-3xxxx dynamic_inventory]$ chmod 755 ec2.py
[ansible@ip-172-3xxxx dynamic_inventory]$ ./ec2.py
./ec2.py: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token (' ./ec2.py: line 4: from future import (absolute_import, division, print_function)’

https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/blob/main/plugins/inventory/aws_ec2.py

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Hi Parth,

  1. Where did you get ec2.py?

  2. Why are you doing chmod ?

Please refer https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/inventory.html#using-inventory-plugins for using aws_ec2 dynamic inventory plugin.

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Got script from link you gave of github.
For making script executable doing chmod. Isnt required ??

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You can try this

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/ec2.py
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/ec2.ini

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Ashok,

I tried as i have mentioned in below mail trail, getting 404 Not found error.

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Hi Partha,

Please try this

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/stable-1.9/plugins/inventory/ec2.py

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ec2.py is deprecated and it is based upon a deprecated version of boto.

Please use aws_ec2 as it is based upon the latest version of a boto and provides additional features.