Help creating an ansible playbook

[andrew thornton]

Hello everyone,

I am new to ansible but I am really enjoying it. I am trying to create a playbook to spin up new droplets (servers) at DigitalOcean. I have the following playbook put together and I need a little help.

My first task "Create new staging droplets" works very well, but I need to create a DNS record for each server that is created and I am not sure how to go about this. I am starting to think that using a "with_items" dictionary isn't the best way to go about this. In the end, I just need to make a call with the digital_ocean_domain module for each server with its newly assigned IP address.

Can someone help steer me in the right direction?

---

- hosts: 127.0.0.1

  connection: local

  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

    - name: "Create new staging droplets"

      digital_ocean: >

          state=present

          command=droplet

          name={{ item.hostname }}

          client_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

          api_key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

          size_id={{ item.size }}

          region_id=4

          image_id=1505447

          private_networking=true

          wait_timeout=500

          unique_name=yes

          ssh_key_ids=XXXXXXX

      with_items:

        - { hostname: 'stage-web01.testsite.com', size: '66'}

        - { hostname: 'stage-app01.testsite.com', size: '66'}

        - { hostname: 'stage-db01.testsite.com', size: '66'}

      register: droplet

    - name: "Create DNS Entries"

      digital_ocean_domain: >

        state=present

        client_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

        api_key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

        name={{ droplet.name }}.testsite.com

        ip={{ droplet.ip_address }}

I appreciate it,

Andrew