EC2 dynamic inv and group_vars not working.

[Leszek Niewiadomski]

Hello. I've got problem with dynamic inventory and group_vars working in ansible:

Directory layout

- inventories
   - scale
     - ec2.py
     - ec2.ini
     - hosts
     - group_vars - link to ../../group_vars
- group_vars  
- roles
- playbook.yml
- ansible.cfg

 group_vars/scale_webservers

filebeat_gatherlogs:
  - apache
  - exim

Hosts file:

[localhost]
127.0.0.1

[tag_Type_sap]

[scale_webservers:children]
tag_Type_sap

Running it shows variable is not defined:

ansible@ansible0:/usr/local/ansible$ ansible -i inventories/scale scale_webservers -m debug -a "var=hostvars['filebeat_gatherlogs']"
sap0 | SUCCESS => {
    "hostvars['filebeat_logs']": "VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!"
}

Please help me solving it out. At least give me clues what have i did wrong.

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 10. mai 2017 10:36, Leszek Niewiadomski wrote:
> Running it shows variable is not defined:
>
>
> ansible@ansible0:/usr/local/ansible$ ansible -i inventories/scale
> scale_webservers -m debug -a "var=hostvars['filebeat_gatherlogs']"
> sap0 | SUCCESS => {
> "hostvars['filebeat_logs']": "VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!"
> }
>
>
> Please help me solving it out. At least give me clues what have i did wrong.

You are using the hostvars wrong. The first parameter is the hostname
and the second is the variable.

hostvars[inventory_hostname].filebeat_logs

or

vars['filebeat_logs']


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Kai Stian Olstad