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leonardseymore
leonardseymore

Reputation: 543

Ansible EC2 Dynamic Inventory with host_vars

I'm new to Dynamic Inventory with Ansible.

I have a playbook: hosts: tag_Name_abc

Running this playbook does what it needs to correctly on the tagged EC2 instance. When I try to use host_vars I get fatal: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "AnsibleUndefinedVariable: 'test_var' is undefined"}

There is a file host_vars/tag_Name_abc files under the playbook file directory with contents test_var: test_value, but it's not picking up the variable.

Launching the playbook ansible-playbook -i ec2.py myplaybook.yml

Any advise would be great. Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3760

Answers (1)

Konstantin Suvorov
Konstantin Suvorov

Reputation: 68269

Dynamic inventory script ec2.py make groups with names tag_key_value.

To set inventory variables for groups, you should put them into group_vars folder.
host_vars is for host-level vars.

In your case, you should use group_vars/tag_Name_abc file.

Upvotes: 7

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