can we use loop modules twice in ansible playbook.

[balubhai555]

Hello team,

I want to 

1. Create AWS ec2 instance using one "with_items: ec2"
   
2. After that I want to insert the IP address of those instances into /etc/ansible/hosts  file. For that I am using local_action: lineinfile . But after that I want to use again with_items: "{{ec2.instances}}"

At that time it shows error, That Item is undefined.

Are we use those with_items twice in a playbook. Any example please suggest me. 

Thank you in advance. 

[jta...@ansible.com]

A variable does not disappear after being used in an item loop, so I suspect you aren't referring to the variable correctly in the second task. Please post an example playbook and the full -vvvv output with the error.

[balubhai555]

  tasks:

  - name: Launch EC2 instance

    ec2:

       key_name: "{{keypair}}"

       group: default

       count: "{{count}}"

       instance_type: "{{instance_type}}"

       instance_tags: '{"Name": "{{item.names}}","Type":"{{tag_Type}}","Environment":"{{tag_Environment}}"}'

       image: "{{image}}"

       wait: true

       region: "{{region}}"

       aws_access_key: *****

       aws_secret_key: *****

    register: ec2

    with_items:

      - names: Ansible-1

      - names: Ansible-2

  - name: One Add the newly created EC2 instance(s) to the local host group (located inside the directory)

    local_action: lineinfile dest="/etc/hosts" regexp={{ item.public_ip }} insertafter="[launched]" line="{{ item.public_ip }} ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/{{ keypair }}.pem"

    with_items:  "{{ec2.instances}}"

 

 

 - name: wait for ssh to come up

    wait_for:

      host: "{{ ansible_host }}"

      port: 22

      delay: 60

      timeout: 320

      state: started

    with_items: "{{ec2.instances}}"

  - name: Print all ec2 variables

    debug: var=ec2

[Suporter]

if you debug that you will get the real result name, it may be something like ec2.results.instances or something like that. can you post the debug output of ec2 variable?

[balubhai555]

Thanks for your reply,

Will you please explain more. Thank you.

[Suporter]

  tasks:

  - name: Launch EC2 instance

    ec2:

       key_name: "{{keypair}}"

       group: default

       count: "{{count}}"

       instance_type: "{{instance_type}}"

       instance_tags: '{"Name": "{{item.names}}","Type":"{{tag_Type}}","Environment":"{{tag_Environment}}"}'

       image: "{{image}}"

       wait: true

       region: "{{region}}"

       aws_access_key: *****

       aws_secret_key: *****

    register: ec2

    with_items:

      - names: Ansible-1

      - names: Ansible-2

    debug: var=ec2

add the above bold line in your playbook, it will throw an output , paste that here

[balubhai555]

Thanks for your quick reply. Already entered those bold lines.

Got the same issue.

[Suporter]

can you please show the output of it...i dont see that in the screenshot