Running Ansible playbook using AWS Systems Manager (skipping: no hosts matched)

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Hi All,

I’m not sure this is the right place to ask this question.

I’m trying to run an ansible playbook from Github using AWS Systems Manager. My repo has a hosts (ini format) file as shown below:

[dev] server.example.com

And my playbook looks like below:

— - name: test run

hosts: dev

become: true

When I run the playbook, I get the error below:

PLAY [test run] ******************************************************** skipping: no hosts matched

Any idea why it is not picking up the hosts? Can someone help me to resolve this issue?

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Hi All,

I’m not sure this is the right place to ask this question.

I’m trying to run an ansible playbook from Github using AWS Systems Manager. My repo has a hosts (ini format) file as shown below:

[dev] server.example.com

And my playbook looks like below:

— - name: test run

hosts: dev

become: true

This isn’t valid nor complete.
Please provide the entire playbook using a correct formatting

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Hi Dick,

Thank you for your reply. This is the Git repo https://github.com/prasanthcambridge/ansible

Basically, I’m running the Ansible playbook from the AWS Systems Manager Console → Run command → AWS-ApplyAnsiblePlaybooks → Specify the Github repo location → Choose the target instances → Run.

It works fine if I change ‘hosts: all’ in the playbook instead of the group name ‘dev’. But, I just only want to run against a group.

Is there anything I’m doing wrong here? I’m very new to Ansible.

Kind regards,
Prasanth

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Hi Dick.

I also get the below warning message:

[WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: dev

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Hi Dick.

I also get the below warning message:

[WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: dev

Where did you define that host group?

Regards

         Racke
6

Hi All,

I’m not sure this is the right place to ask this question.

I’m trying to run an ansible playbook from Github using AWS Systems Manager. My repo has a hosts (ini format) file as shown below:

[dev] server.example.com

This should not be on one line

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Hi Racke,

It is defined under hosts file. Please see the links below:

https://github.com/prasanthcambridge/ansible
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72547240/running-ansible-playbook-using-aws-systems-manager-skipping-no-hosts-matched

Kind regards,
Prasanth

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Hi Racke,

It is defined under hosts file. Please see the links below:

https://github.com/prasanthcambridge/ansible
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72547240/running-ansible-playbook-using-aws-systems-manager-skipping-no-hosts-matched

Kind regards,
Prasanth

Hello Pransath,

you are using -i localhost in the playbook command, maybe that's the problem?

Regards

        Racke
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Hi Racke,

Thank you for your reply. Looks like that causes the issue. Let me do some troubleshooting and will get back to you.

Kind regards,
Prasanth