How do you use ec2 dynamic inventory with windows instances?

[Daniel Furze]

I've been playing with ansible and have everything working for managing linux instances via dynamic inventory in ec2, I have also set up windows support when using a fix hosts file.

When I try to use ec2 dynamic inventory to manage windows instances it seems to flip back to trying SSH for access.

Currently I have a simple playbook:

---

### Setup instances

- name: configure iis servers

  hosts: tag_environment_test:&tag_type_iisserver

  roles:

    - iisserver 

in my roles file:

---

### Install iis

- name: Install iis

  win_feature:

    name: "Web-Server"

state: absent

restart: yes

include_sub_features: yes

include_management_tools: yes

ec2 dynamic inventory is managed by boto

wndows credentials are in group_vars/windows.yml

I'm guessing there's a setting for the playbook to tell a role it should use the windows credentials.

[Daniel Furze]

doh!

I solved it by creating a group_vars file with the same name as one of my hosts tags

group_vars\tag_type_iisserver.yml

[Nicolas Landais]

I am curious to know what your hosts file and group_vars\tag_type_iisserver.yml look like. I am trying to add dynamic hosts to my static windows group in /etc/ansible/hosts using the following syntax

[tag_name_xzy]

[windows:children]

tag_name_xyz

as shown in the documentation and the result is : "No hosts matched" even though ec2.py does return a few hosts under the section [tag_name_xyz]. It's driving me crazy. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[em...@nathanwebster.me]

Did you ever figure this out?  I'm currently getting "no hosts matched".  Any tips would be great! 

[Bryan Banks]

To anyone who finds this and has the same problem, here's how it works:

My playbook (myplaybook.yml)

- name: Do some stuff to windows servers

  hosts: tag_OS_windows2012r2

  gather_facts: false

  connection: local

  tasks:

    - name:

      win_file:

        path: C:\foobar.txt

        state: touch

I also created a folder / file group_vars/tag_OS_windows2012r2.yml (note this file name is the same as my hosts in the playbook)

ansible_connection: winrm

ansible_ssh_port: 5986

ansible_ssh_user: Administrator

ansible_ssh_pass: mypassword123

And then call your playbook with ec2.py (and AWS profiles, if you use that)

AWS_PROFILE=main ansible-playbook -i /etc/ansible/ec2.py myplaybook.yml