Host Group not being recognised

[Antonpm11]

Hi,

I recently upgraded to 1.9 and I've noticed a host group I created is not being recognised. Here is the playbook extract:

  tasks:

  - name: Provision test t2 micro instance

    ec2:

      aws_access_key: "{{ ec2_access_key }}"

      aws_secret_key: "{{ ec2_secret_key }}"

      region: "{{ region }}"

      key_name: "{{ key_name }}"

      instance_type: "{{ instance_type }}"

      image: "{{ image }}"

      wait: "{{ wait }}"

      wait_timeout: "{{ wait_timeout }}"

      group: "{{ group }}"

      instance_tags:

          name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"

          tier: web

          env: prod

      assign_public_ip: yes

      vpc_subnet_id: "{{ vpc_subnet_id }}"

    register: ec2

  - name: Add all instance public IPs to host group

    add_host: hostname={{ item.public_ip }} groups=new_webservers

    with_items: ec2.instances

  - name: Wait for SSH to come up

    wait_for: host={{ item.public_dns_name }} port=22 delay=60 timeout=320 state=started

    with_items: ec2.instances

- hosts: new_webservers

  tasks:

  - name: configure and deploy the webservers

    yum: name={{ item }} state=present

    with_items:

    - httpd

    - php

    - python

  - service: name=httpd state=started

I get:

PLAY [new_webservers] *********************************************************

skipping: no hosts matched

And therefore the last section is not run. This playbook was working ok under ansible-1.8.4 so I was wondering if it's a bug?

I am running ansible-1.9.0.1 on Centos 6

Thanks,

Anton 

[Antonpm11]

Something is definitely not right here, I end up with the following if I remove the "--limit" clause I was applying:

http://pastebin.com/9YFXGPY6

This is a log entry for the same playbook prior to the upgrade:

http://pastebin.com/ZYLYZtGV 

Yum logs show I upgraded 2 days later.

Does anyone think this is a bug and is anyone else seeing this?

Thanks,

Anton 

[Antonpm11]

I downgraded to ansible-1.8.4-1.el6.noarch and I see the same issue, so really confused now!