s3 module can create a bucket, but cannot list bucket contents

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I’m unable to get a list of an s3 bucket, Ansible says OK but no data is retrieved.

╰─➤ dpkg -l | grep boto
ii python-boto 2.40.0-1ubuntu1 all Python interface to Amazon’s Web Services - Python 2.x
ii python-boto3 1.4.2-1 all Python interface to Amazon’s Web Services - Python 2.x
ii python-botocore 1.5.7-1 all Low-level, data-driven core of boto 3 (Python 2)

╰─➤ ansible --version
ansible 2.3.1.0
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = Default w/o overrides
python version = 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

  • name: AWS Bucket get last SQL dunp
    hosts: localhost
    gather_facts: no
    connection: local
    vars:
    bucket: myuniquebucketname
    tasks:

  • name: AWS get bucket list
    s3:
    bucket: “{{ bucket }}”
    mode: list
    register: mysqldump_list
    tags: aws, bucket

  • debug: var=“{{ mysqldump_list }}”

╰─➤ ansible-playbook -i /etc/ansible/ec2.py aws_bucket_mysqltest_getlast.yml

PLAY [AWS Bucket get last SQL dunp] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [AWS get bucket list] ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [debug] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
“<type ‘dict’>”: “VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!”
}

PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0

2

Wrong syntax.

var= take name of the variable not the content.

- debug: var=mysqldump_list

3

Thank you Kai, that is exactly what I was doing wrong. Have a great day!