EC2 Terminate - Dynamic Inventory - boto required for this module

[K Cheng]

Hi All,

I'm trying to create a terminate AWS EC2 play using the dynamic inventory script but I keep getting fatal: [remote_host_ip]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "boto required for this module"}.

I created the instance using another play and that works perfectly.

My terminate play looks like this:

---

- name: Find instances 

  hosts: tag_Environment_goji

  gather_facts: False

  tasks:

    - name: Create group

      group_by: key=mark_terminate

- hosts: mark_terminate

  connection: local

  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

    - name: Terminate instance(s)

      ec2:

        profile: china

        region: cn-north-1

        instance_ids: "{{ ec2_id }}"

        state: absent

I'm running Ansible 2.0.0-beta.

I run the playbook using this from my local laptop:

ansible-playbook -i china_aws_inventory/ec2.py roles/terminate_environment.yml -e "env=goji" --limit tag_Environment_goji -vvvv

Using /Users/Etherdaemon/personal/coderepos/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file

2 plays in roles/terminate_environment.yml

Loaded callback default of type stdout, v2.0

PLAY [Find instances] **********************************************************

TASK [Create group] ************************************************************

changed: [10.237.3.62] => {"add_group": "mark_terminate", "changed": true}

PLAY ***************************************************************************

TASK [Terminate instance(s)] ***************************************************

ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: ubuntu

10.237.3.62 EXEC (umask 22 && mkdir -p "$HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1445473215.44-14684358660357" && echo "$HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1445473215.44-14684358660357")

10.237.3.62 PUT /var/folders/vh/rdc7pnkj2kz6vs9vhb844c480000gn/T/tmpCoE5zB TO /Users/Etherdaemon/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1445473215.44-14684358660357/ec2

10.237.3.62 EXEC LANG=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_CTYPE=C /usr/bin/python /Users/Etherdaemon/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1445473215.44-14684358660357/ec2; rm -rf "/Users/Etherdaemon/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1445473215.44-14684358660357/" > /dev/null 2>&1

fatal: [10.237.3.62]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "boto required for this module"}

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************

10.237.3.62                : ok=1    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=1

The part I'm confused about is that I thought connection: local ran the terminate command from my local laptop - not from the remote host I want to terminate? The above output look like it's trying to run it from the remote??

If I change hosts to  localhost in the playbook then I get skipping: no hosts matched when trying to find the instances.

If I run the inventory first using python china_aws_inventory/ec2.py --refresh-cache it finds all the instances, but running the play still says skipping due to no hosts found.

I'm running on:

- MAC OSX 10.10.5

- Ansible v2.0.0-0.3.beta1

- boto: 2.38.0

Launch scripts using the same ec2 module and boto profile works fine.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Karen

[K Cheng]

Ok looks like a change in behaviour in Ansible v2:

Following playbook in v2 results in this which I think is failing as its trying to run on the remote host:

TASK [debug msg={{ hostvars[inventory_hostname]['ec2_id'] }}] ******************

ok: [10.237.3.62] => {

    "changed": false,

    "msg": "i-f2fc90ca"

}

TASK [Terminate instances] *****************************************************

fatal: [10.237.3.62]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "boto required for this module"}

Downgrade to Ansible v1.9.4 and it terminates successfully:

TASK: [debug msg={{ hostvars[inventory_hostname]['ec2_id'] }}] ****************

ok: [10.237.3.62] => {

    "msg": "i-f2fc90ca"

}

msg:

i-f2fc90ca

TASK: [Terminate instances] ***************************************************

changed: [10.237.3.62 -> 127.0.0.1]

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************

10.237.3.62                : ok=4    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0

Play looks like:

---

- name: Termination Script

  hosts: ec2

  gather_facts: False

  connection: local

  vars: 

    - region: 'cn-north-1'

  tasks:

    - name: Gather EC2 facts

      local_action: ec2_facts

    - debug: var=hostvars[inventory_hostname]

    - debug: "msg={{ hostvars[inventory_hostname]['ec2_id'] }}"

    - name: Terminate instances 

      local_action: ec2

        profile='china'

        state='absent'

        instance_ids='{{ ec2_id }}'

        region='{{ region }}'

        wait=True