terminate instance behind ELB

[Rahul Mehrotra]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out if there is a way to terminate instance which are in private subnet behind ELB using dynamic inventory.

I have my ansible script as follows

- hosts: localhost

  serial: 1

  tasks:

    - name: Terminate {{ec2_id}} instance in {{aws_region}}

      local_action:

        module: ec2

        state: 'absent'

        region: '{{region}}'

        instance_ids: '{{ec2_id}}' 

Now the issue is that ; the instance do not have a public IP, if I am modifying ec2.ini to get private IP and set hosts to like tag_Name_webservers

then ansible tries to SSH inside the instance and fails.

If I set it to localhost it is not able to get the instance_id and exits with ec2_id not found

Can anyone direct me with a correct method to do this ?

Thank you

[Raghu Udiyar]

Disable gather_facts, so ansible won't try to contact the instance : 

---

- name: destroy ec2 instance

  hosts: "{{cli_hosts}}"

  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

   - name: remove instance by instance id

     ec2:

       state: absent

       region: "{{ec2_region}}"

       instance_ids: "{{ec2_id}}"

       wait: true

     delegate_to: localhost

-- Raghu