Use Ansible variable in AWS Cloudformation template

[Tony]

Hi,

I am trying to use an ansible variable in my AWS cloudformation template, see below red where I am trying to use the variable from Ansible.

Parameters:

    Environment:

        Description: 'Environment definition.'

        Type: 'String'

        Default: 'Dev'

Resources:

    VPC:

        Type: 'AWS::EC2::VPC'

        Properties:

            CidrBlock:

                 "{{ ansible variable here }}"

            EnableDnsSupport: true

            EnableDnsHostnames: true

            InstanceTenancy: 'default'

            Tags:

                - Key: 'Environment'

                  Value:

                      Ref: 'Environment'

Does anyone know how to pass this on to Ansible?

Thank you!

[Mike Eggleston]

$ ansible-playbook -e variable=value

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[Tony]

Sorry I think you may have misunderstood what I am trying to accomplish. 

I need to pass an ansible variable to a cloudformation template yml file.

I believe I need to do some form of templating with j2, but looking for pointers.

Thanks

[Dick Visser]

You can let ansible generate the cloud formation template and then it will work

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[Tony]

Can you expand on that please Sir?

[Dick Visser]

You can use ansible to generate the cloudformation template, so you can use any variables from your ansible inventory/vars/etc.

For instance using a 'template' task.

Then once that is done, the result can by used by cloudformation.

I have no idea how this may (or may not) fit into whatever work flow you have.

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