Error during Creation of VPC in AWS via Ansible - macos

Question

I am trying to create a VPC with the following code.
- name: VPC | Creating an AWS VPC inside mentioned Region
local_action:
module: ec2_vpc
region: "{{ vpc_region }}"
state: present
aws_access_key:
aws_secret_key:
cidr_block: "{{ vpc_cidr_block }}"
resource_tags: { "Name":"{{ vpc_name }}-vpc" }
subnets: "{{ vpc_subnets }}"
internet_gateway: yes
route_tables: "{{ public_subnet_rt }}"
register: vpc
passing the localhost as the host.
But I am facing the following error.
An exception occurred during task execution. The full traceback is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/Merv/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1462873251.31-168428606517499/ec2_vpc", line 2944, in <module>
main()
File "/Users/Merv/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1462873251.31-168428606517499/ec2_vpc", line 731, in main
(vpc_dict, new_vpc_id, subnets_changed, igw_id, changed) = create_vpc(module, vpc_conn)
File "/Users/Merv/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1462873251.31-168428606517499/ec2_vpc", line 339, in create_vpc
previous_vpc = find_vpc(module, vpc_conn, id, cidr_block)
File "/Users/Merv/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1462873251.31-168428606517499/ec2_vpc", line 199, in find_vpc
previous_vpcs = vpc_conn.get_all_vpcs(None, {'cidr': cidr, 'state': 'available'})
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_all_vpcs'
fatal: [localhost -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "invocation": {"module_name": "ec2_vpc"}, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/Users/Merv/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1462873251.31-168428606517499/ec2_vpc\", line 2944, in <module>\n main()\n File \"/Users/Merv/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1462873251.31-168428606517499/ec2_vpc\", line 731, in main\n (vpc_dict, new_vpc_id, subnets_changed, igw_id, changed) = create_vpc(module, vpc_conn)\n File \"/Users/Merv/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1462873251.31-168428606517499/ec2_vpc\", line 339, in create_vpc\n previous_vpc = find_vpc(module, vpc_conn, id, cidr_block)\n File \"/Users/Merv/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1462873251.31-168428606517499/ec2_vpc\", line 199, in find_vpc\n previous_vpcs = vpc_conn.get_all_vpcs(None, {'cidr': cidr, 'state': 'available'})\nAttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_all_vpcs'\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "parsed": false}
I moved my boto version to 2.40.0 yet facing this issue.

Answer 1

yes It is a bug in the boto library. I installed the latest one. Also, this error persists if, the region name is wrong. So i changed my "{{ vpc_region }}" and this error went away.

Answer 2

Looks like, it a bug in boto library.
Found this: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/1772
For a temporary fix(as mentioned in the link):
To manually fix you can
add into each init.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto/ec2/init.py
your endpoints for example...
I added to the RegionData for this...
'eu-west-1a': 'ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com',
'eu-west-1b': 'ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com',
'eu-west-1c': 'ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com',