# unable to set spot block duration using wait: true and wait\_time in ansible

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**Created:** [June 13, 2017, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-set-spot-block-duration-using-wait-true-and-wait-time-in-ansible/24710 "2017-06-13T11:50:29Z")\
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unable to set spot block duration using wait: true and wait\_time in ansible

- hosts: localhost  
connection: local  
gather\_facts: false

tasks:

- name: launch spot instance  
ec2:  
spot\_price: 0.052  
region: us-east-1  
keypair: test  
group\_id: sg-5789654  
instance\_type: c3.large  
instance\_tags:  
Name: common  
Env: Test  
Owner: mi  
Role: don  
Stack: tem  
Client: test  
count: 1  
image: ami-216a898547  
wait: true  
wait\_timeout: 60  
vpc\_subnet\_id: subnet-64cf8908  
assign\_public\_ip: no  
register: newinstance

- name: allocate and associate a new elastic IP inside a VPC  
ec2\_eip:  
region: us-east-1  
in\_vpc: yes  
instance\_id: “{{ newinstance.instance\_ids[0] }}”  
register: instance\_eip

- debug: var=instance\_eip.public\_ip