terminating instances

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hello all,

I run “ec2_instance_facts” to get some instance_ids:

  • ec2_instance_facts:
    region: us-east-1
    filters:
    “tag:Name”: “{{ cluster }}”
    register: ec2_res

Then i can properly print the instance_ids only for those running:

  • name: print ips
    debug: “msg={{ item.instance_id }}”
    with_items: “{{ ec2_res.instances }}”
    when: item.state.name == “running”

BUT I can’t terminate them, i trying like this:

  • name: Terminate instances that were previously launched
    ec2:
    state: “absent”
    instance_ids: “{{ item.instance_id }}”
    when: item.state.name == “running”
    with_items: “{{ ec2_res.instances }}”

But this fails with:

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {
“msg”: “The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ‘item’ is undefined\n\nThe error appears to have been in ‘/home/admin/voice-conf/playbooks/add_fs_to_cluster.yml’: line 34, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - name: Terminate instances that were previously launched\n ^ here\n”
}

some help is appreciated!

David

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Anyone able to help?

3

Anyone able to help?

Probably, but as you can see below your mail screwed up any formatting...

hello all,

I run "ec2_instance_facts" to get some instance_ids:

- ec2_instance_facts:
region: us-east-1
filters:
"tag:Name": "*{{ cluster }}*"
register: ec2_res

as you can see , no indentation at all.

But this fails with:

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {
    "msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The
error was: 'item' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to have been in
'/home/admin/voice-conf/playbooks/add_fs_to_cluster.yml': line 34, column
5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax
problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - name: Terminate
instances that were previously launched\n ^ here\n"

This is probably a indentation problem, but since your mail all the indentation is gone it's very hard to help.

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It seems the “when” for the ec2 task is not lined up. “when” should be indented at the same level as ec2 task similar to the debug task

5

Shit. Ok I’m not home now, but I’ll try asap. And resend the email unformatted.

Thanks for replying, i appreciate it!