Setting Variable across multiple hosts blocks

[Andrew Morgan]

Hello All,

I am having an issue when I set a fact, I am not able to see that fact after I have another host block in my playbook. I get the error variable is undefined. The issue occurs in my  - name: Launch instance

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- hosts: all

 become: yes

 #connection: local

  tasks:

  - name: Get Instance info

   register: ec2_facts

  - name: setting fact for Security group

   set_fact:

      SERCURITYGROUP : "{{ item.group_name }}"

   with_items: "{{ ec2_facts.instances[0].network_interfaces[0].groups }}"  

- hosts: localhost

 gather_facts: False

 vars:

   keypair: ansible

   instance_type: m1.small

   image: "{{ ami_id }}"

   region: us-east-1

   subnet: "{{ SUBNETID }}"

  tasks:

  - name: Launch instance

   ec2:

     key_name: "{{ keypair }}"

     group: "{{ SERCURITYGROUP }}"

     instance_type: "{{ instance_type }}"

     image: "{{ image }}"

     wait: true

     region: "{{ region }}"

     vpc_subnet_id: "{{ subnet}}"

     assign_public_ip: yes

   register: ec2

TASK [Launch instance] *********************************************************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! =>
  msg: |-
    The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'SERCURITYGROUP' is undefined

I have set the variable as a fact, so I am not sure why I cannot call it with another --host stanza . 

[Dick Visser]

Facts are set per host. You mix all with localhost.

What are you trying to do?

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[Andrew Morgan]

Thank you for the reply.. I thought if I set host all at the top and then set the facts for host all it would work. I guess I would have to have localhost in my inventory file correct?

I am just trying to launch a ec2 instance in my playbook

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[Brian Coca]

The 'implicit localhost' is not part of ALL

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Brian Coca

[Brian Coca]

The 'implicit localhost' is not part of ALL:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/inventory/implicit_localhost.html



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Brian Coca

[James Cassell]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, at 11:49 AM, Brian Coca wrote:
> The 'implicit localhost' is not part of ALL:
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/inventory/implicit_localhost.html
>

Documentation gold!

Thanks!

V/r,
James Cassell

[Andrew Morgan]

Thank you for all your assistance! :)