We switched to ansible 2.10
Before it was azure_rm_networkinterface_facts (working) now is azure_rm_networkinterface_info
- name: "Get facts for network interface by it's name"
azure_rm_networkinterface_facts:
resource_group: "{{ target_resourcegroup }}"
name: "{{ target_nic_name }}"
- name: "Define private IP address"
set_fact:
private_ip_address: "{{ ansible_facts | json_query(query) }}"
vars:
query: "azure_networkinterfaces[0].properties.ipConfigurations[0].properties.privateIPAddress"
when: azure_networkinterfaces|length > 0
Error I get is:
4 TASK [azure_preconditions : Define private IP address] *************************
00:01:38.844 [0;31mfatal: [40.118.86.58]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check 'azure_networkinterfaces|length > 0' failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (azure_networkinterfaces|length > 0): 'azure_networkinterfaces' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to be in '/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/PA-28544-ansible-version-upgrade/roles/azure_preconditions/tasks/main.yml': line 143, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: \"Define private IP address\"\n ^ here\n"}[0m
00:01:38.844
azure_networkinterfaces seems to be a return value of azure_rm_networkinterface_facts so it's normal that it doesn't exist...
I'd write a playbook like this:
- name: "Get facts for network interface by it's name"
azure_rm_networkinterface_facts:
resource_group: "{{ target_resourcegroup }}"
name: "{{ target_nic_name }}"
register: output
I suggest you debug the output variable to check your return values. I don't know the version of Azure you are using and a lot of changes can exist depending on it.
- name: "Display return value"
debug:
msg: "{{ output }}"
You could play with output.azure_networkinterfaces or output.networkinterfaces
Following the last documentation, its seems azure_rm_networkinterface_fact is deprecated, replaced by azure_rm_networkinterface_info
azure_rm_networkinterface_info
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I have playbook as below:
- name: fetch host group name
set_fact:
group_name: '{{ group_names[0] }}'
- name: get memory and storage minimum requirements
set_fact:
min_memory: "{{ group_name.memory }}"
min_storage: "{{ group_name.storage }}"
In defaults/main.yml
#memory and storage settings
primary:
memory: 32
storage: 128
my inventory host is in primary group.
when I run playbook, I am seeing below error.
TASK [ansible-elastic-cloud-enterprise : get memory and storage minimum requirements] ****************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [192.168.153.5]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'str object' has no attribute 'memory'\n\nThe error appears to be in '/cygdrive/c/Users/test/Downloads/ansible-elastic-cloud-enterprise-master/roles/ansible-elastic-cloud-enterprise/tasks/base/general/checkmemorystorage.yml': line 7, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: get memory and storage minimum requirements\n ^ here\n"}
you want to use the content of variable like another variable, so use lookup vars:
sample:
- name: dynamic var
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no
vars:
groupname: ["primary", "secondary"]
primary:
memory: 32
storage: 128
tasks:
- set_fact:
id: "{{ lookup('vars', groupname[0]) }}"
- debug: msg="{{ id.memory }} -- {{ id.storage }} "
result:
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": "32 -- 128 "
in your case you should write:
- name: fetch host group name
set_fact:
group_name: '{{ lookup("vars", group_names[0] }}'
I'm new to Ansible and trying to get a service state where the service name is dynamic and set by set_fact before in the playbook.
How can you build a variable within another variable?
I wish I could use something like that to display my service state :
{{ ansible_facts.services['{{ servicename }}'].state }}
But well it doesn't work.
So I tried this way with vars :
- name: set service name
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
servicename: "'myservice'"
when: ansible_distribution_major_version == "7"
- name: print service state
debug: msg={{ vars['ansible_facts.services[' + servicename + '].state'] }}
vars:
servicename: "{{ servicename }}"
I got the following error :
fatal: [myhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'dict object' has no attribute u\"ansible_facts.services['myservice'].state\"\n\nThe error appears to be in '/etc/ansible/playbook/myplaybook.yaml': line 20, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - name: print service state\n ^ here\n"}
When the following works just fine :
- name: print service state
debug:
msg: "{{ ansible_facts.services['myservice'].state }}"
Inside a {{ … }} block, you can access the variables directly. And from my point of view, you can leave the ansible_facts out, as well as the variable assignment in the second task.
This will do what you want (and as Zeitounator already wrote):
- hosts: localhost
vars:
services:
myservice:
state: foo
tasks:
- name: set service name
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
servicename: "myservice"
- name: print service state
debug:
msg: "{{ services[servicename].state }}"
In the below playbook, can someone please tell me what is wrong with the syntax of the final set_fact statement. If i explicitly specify the hostname R9 (as per the first set_fact), then it works without issue. But if I assign a variable to have a value of R9, and then use this in the final set_fact statement, I get the error shown below. Argh.
---
- hosts: all
gather_facts: no
vars:
ansible_network_os: ios
ansible_connection: network_cli
tasks:
- ios_command:
commands: show ip arp
register: results
- set_fact:
some_var: "{{ hostvars['R9'].results }}"
- set_fact:
hostname: "R9"
- set_fact:
another_var: "{{ hostvars['{{hostname}}'].results }}"
- debug:
var=some_var
- debug:
var=another_var
Error:
fatal: [R7]: FAILED! =>
msg: |-
The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: "hostvars['{{hostname}}']" is undefined
The error appears to be in '/root/ansible/Rapid/testsetfact.yml': line 20, column 6, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
- set_fact:
^ here
fatal: [R9]: FAILED! =>
msg: |-
The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: "hostvars['{{hostname}}']" is undefined
The error appears to be in '/root/ansible/Rapid/testsetfact.yml': line 20, column 6, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
- set_fact:
^ here
you can use the inventory_hostname for your purpose:
- set_fact:
another_var: "{{ hostvars[inventory_hostname].results }}"
I would like to use inventory_hostname as part of a dictionary lookup to configure servers that use the same template, but with different variables
/etc/ansible/hosts
[nodes]
node1 ansible_host=192.168.0.2
roles/role/defaults/main.yml
node1:
if1: eth1
ip1: 1.1.1.1/11
node2:
if1: eth4
ip1: 4.4.4.4/44
roles/role/tasks/main.yml
- name: test
debug:
msg: "{{ [inventory_hostname].[if1] }} end test "
expected this to display eth1 on the console but got the error
fatal: [node1]: FAILED! => {
"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'if1' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/root/ansible/roles/role/tasks/main.yml': line 6, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: test\n ^ here\n"
}
What you are looking for is vars:
- name: test
debug:
msg: "{{ vars[ansible_hostname]['if1'] }} end test"
I'm trying to write a playbook that will load vars from a group vars file then check if a variable exists
my playbook is like this:
---
- hosts: "{{ target }}"
roles:
- app
tasks:
- name: alert if variable does not exist
fail:
msg: "{{ item }} is not defined"
when: "{{ item }}" is not defined
with_items:
- country
- city
- street
...
My inventory file contains
[app]
ansible-slave1
ansible-slave2
[db]
ansible-db
[multi:children]
app
db
and I have the roles/app/vars/main.yml containing
country: "France"
city: "Paris"
What I was expecting is the playbook to output "street is not defined" but I have a syntax issue I can't resolve
[vagrant#ansible-master vagrant]$ ansible-playbook --inventory-file=ansible_master_hosts test_variables.yml --extra-vars "target=ansible-slave1" --syntax-check
ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
The error appears to have been in '/vagrant/test_variables.yml': line 10, column 24, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
msg: "{{ item }} is not defined"
when: "{{ item }}" is not defined
^ here
We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
missing quotes. Always quote template expression brackets when they
start a value. For instance:
with_items:
- {{ foo }}
Should be written as:
with_items:
- "{{ foo }}"
I'd be happy with any hints.
Thanks
You have "" in invalid place of "when" statement. This should be like this:
msg: "{{ item }} is not defined"
when: "{{ item }} is not defined"
So the output will be:
failed: [hostname] (item=street) => {"changed": false, "item": "street", "msg": "street is not defined"}
there is on open issue conditional is defined fails to capture undefined var .
as a workaround I'd suggest to change the where condition to the following:
when: "{{ item }}" == ""