Configuring AWS metric alarm using newly created scaling policy ARN

[Claire Lee]

Hi guys, I'm still pretty new to Ansible and was wondering if you could answer a question I have. 

I'm trying to create an AWS scaling policy and attach a metric alarm to it. From what I understand, the ec2_metric_alarm module needs the ARN of the scaling policy so that it can associate itself with it. However, I can't seem to get the ARN after creating a new scaling policy from the ec2_scaling_policy module's output. Currently I'm trying to register the result of the ec2_scaling policy module. For example, my playbook looks something like this:

- name: Create scaling policy and associate it with autoscaling group

  ec2_scaling_policy:

    state: present

    region: us-east-1

    name: "test-scaleup-policy"

    adjustment_type: "ChangeInCapacity"

    asg_name: "test-asg"

    scaling_adjustment: 1

    min_adjustment_step: 1

    cooldown: 300

  register: sp_result

- name: Debug result of scaling policy creation

  debug: var=sp_result

- name: Create metric alarm and associate it with autoscaling policy

  action:

    module: ec2_metric_alarm

    state: present

    alarm_actions: ["{{ sp_result.arn }}"]

    etc...

The debug module prints this:

TASK: [Debug] ***************************************************************** 

ok: [localhost] => {

   "sg_result": {

      "changed": false, 

      "invocation": {

      "module_args": "", 

      "module_name": "ec2_scaling_policy"

}}}

According to this merged pull request, the ARN should be included in the data the module returns. Am I trying to capturing this information in the wrong way, e.g. using register when I should be using something else? Otherwise, is there something else I should be doing?

[James Cammarata]

What version of Ansible are you running? The above PR was merged into devel and will be included in 1.7, however it is not yet available in 1.6.x.

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[Claire Lee]

D'oh, looks like I was still on 1.6.6. Using the devel branch now and it works, thanks!