issue setting tags on ec2 module

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I’m having trouble setting up instance_tags in the following playbook:

vars:
key_name: mykey
instance_type: t2.micro
security_group: sg-xxxxxxxx
image: ami-f5b815e8
region: sa-east-1
subnet_id: subnet-5eaxxxxb
instance_tags:

foo: bar

tasks:

  • name: Launch instance
    local_action: ec2
    key_name={{ key_name }}
    group_id={{ security_group }}
    instance_type={{ instance_type }}
    image={{ image }}
    wait=yes
    region={{ region }}
    assign_public_ip=yes
    vpc_subnet_id={{ subnet_id }}
    instance_tags=“{{ instance_tags }}” # not working
    register: ec2

I get “msg: this module requires key=value arguments”, does anyone know the correct way to add the dictionary in this case? I’ve tried a variety of combinations without much success.

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This might be old’ish style at this point, but this is how I do it:

  • name: tag my launched instances
    local_action: ec2_tag resource={{ item.id }} region={{ region }} state=present
    with_items: ec2.instances
    args:
    tags:
    Name: “{{assigned_hostname.stdout}}”
    color: “{{oscar_color.stdout}}”
    environment: “{{oscar_environment}}”
    os: “{{os}}”
    owner: “{{owner}}”
    phi: “{{phi}}”
    pool: “{{pool}}”
    primary_role: “{{primary_role}}”
    branch: “{{branch}}”

Hope that helps.

3

That was it Brent thanks a lot! You pointed me to the right direction. I knew the ec2_tags was an option but I’d like to place the tags in the same call. So I followed the same structured as you proposed:

vars:
key_name: mykey
instance_type: t2.micro
security_group: sg-xxxxxxxx
image: ami-f5b815e8
region: sa-east-1
subnet_id: subnet-5eaxxxxb
instance_tags:

foo: bar

tasks:

  • name: Launch instance
    local_action: ec2
    key_name={{ key_name }}
    group_id={{ security_group }}
    instance_type={{ instance_type }}
    image={{ image }}
    wait=yes
    region={{ region }}
    assign_public_ip=yes
    vpc_subnet_id={{ subnet_id }}
    args:
    instance_tags: “{{ instance_tags }}”
    register: ec2

I will raise a PR adding this example to the documentation may anyone need it.

If someone knows of a more elegant way of doing this please let me know.

Thanks
Hernandes

4

You can stick absolutely everything under args if you want, might make it feel a bit more consistent.

Also “local_action” is usually not needed in cloud provisioning tasks as you can just have a play that talks to localhost

  • hosts: localhost
    tasks:
  • ec2:
    x: 1
    y: 2
  • …

etc

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yeah, this was written before localhost was handled the way it is today. I
haven't gone back and edited this in quite some time.