Wait For Host with Variable Fails

[Ken Jenney]

I use a script to find an available IP on my network and then assign that IP to a system. The system is up and running with the new IP but wait_for_host fails. It looks like the newline is causing issues:

- name: Find a free IP
  local_action: script files/find_free_ip.py {{ startip }} {{ endip }}
  register: freeip
  become: "no"


- name: Assign the correct IP and Hostname to the VM
  script: files/set_ip_and_hostname.sh {{ initialip }} {{ freeip.stdout }} {{ hostname }}
  changed_when: "False"
  delegate_to: "{{ initialip }}"


- name: Wait for VM to become available
  local_action: wait_for host={{ freeip.stdout }} port=22 delay=1 \
    state=started timeout=300
  become: "no"


fatal: [nj-kvm02 -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "elapsed": 300, "failed": true, "msg": "Timeout when waiting for 192.168.1.147\n:22"}

How can I strip the newline character and just store the bare string in a variable for re-use?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

According to
http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#list-of-builtin-filters
you have the trim filter.

{{ freeip.stdout | trim }}

Storing for reuse you could use set_fact module.
- set_fact:
vm_ip: '{{ freeip.stdout | trim }}'

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Ken Jenney]

Kai,

Thanks for the help! This works beautifully.