Making sure an EC2 instance is running

[James Carroll]

Howdy all,
I'm trying to create a playbook that would insure that a certain set of EC2 instances is running before initiating a process.  I've played with the EC2 dynamic inventory but it seems to return only instances that are already running and I didn't see anything in the ini that would tell it to pull everything.   As a second question, assuming I can get the complete list is "running" a valid state/parameter for the EC2 module.  Something like:

---
- name: Make sure the machine is awake:
     module: ec2
     state: running
     wait: True

- name: Fire the process
  shell: ./etc/myutils/backup.sh

Thanks,
James

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[Michael DeHaan]

Possible suggestion:

- hosts: localhost

  tasks:

     - fail: msg="{{ host }} not running"

       when: item in groups['all']

       with_items:

           - host1.example.com

           - host2.example.com

# rest of playbook could go here

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[Michael DeHaan]

That should say "item not in groups['all']" BTW ...