Error when launching

[ghost]

I get this error every time I run ./test-factor.sh. I believe it is to do with the line instance_id: “{{ hostvars[groups[ami_builder.group][0]].ec2_id }}” in build-finish.yml. Any help would be much appreciated.

./test-factor.sh
 [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available

PLAY [Launch EC2 instance] *****************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [launch : Launch EC2 instance(s)] *****************************************
changed: [localhost]

TASK [launch : Add new instance to host group] *********************************
changed: [localhost] => (item={u'kernel': None, u'root_device_type': u'ebs', u'private_dns_name': u'ip-10-0-0-8.us-west-2.compute.internal', u'public_ip': u'35.165.135.112', u'private_ip': u'10.0.0.8', u'id': u'i-091291f85e94c9a99', u'ebs_optimized': False, u'state': u'running', u'virtualization_type': u'hvm', u'root_device_name': u'/dev/sda1', u'ramdisk': None, u'block_device_mapping': {u'/dev/sda1': {u'status': u'attached', u'delete_on_termination': True, u'volume_id': u'vol-0ecb64135cfe3dd39'}}, u'key_name': u'faas', u'image_id': u'ami-5189a661', u'tenancy': u'default', u'groups': {u'sg-2ddb4255': u'faas'}, u'public_dns_name': u'ec2-35-165-135-112.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com', u'state_code': 16, u'tags': {u'launch_group': u'faas_ami_builder', u'Name': u'faas_ami_builder'}, u'placement': u'us-west-2a', u'ami_launch_index': u'0', u'dns_name': u'ec2-35-165-135-112.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com', u'region': u'us-west-2', u'launch_time': u'2017-02-07T00:56:01.000Z', u'instance_type': u'm4.large', u'architecture': u'x86_64', u'hypervisor': u'xen'})

TASK [launch : Wait for SSH to come up] ****************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item={u'kernel': None, u'root_device_type': u'ebs', u'private_dns_name': u'ip-10-0-0-8.us-west-2.compute.internal', u'public_ip': u'35.165.135.112', u'private_ip': u'10.0.0.8', u'id': u'i-091291f85e94c9a99', u'ebs_optimized': False, u'state': u'running', u'virtualization_type': u'hvm', u'root_device_name': u'/dev/sda1', u'ramdisk': None, u'block_device_mapping': {u'/dev/sda1': {u'status': u'attached', u'delete_on_termination': True, u'volume_id': u'vol-0ecb64135cfe3dd39'}}, u'key_name': u'faas', u'image_id': u'ami-5189a661', u'tenancy': u'default', u'groups': {u'sg-2ddb4255': u'faas'}, u'public_dns_name': u'ec2-35-165-135-112.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com', u'state_code': 16, u'tags': {u'launch_group': u'faas_ami_builder', u'Name': u'faas_ami_builder'}, u'placement': u'us-west-2a', u'ami_launch_index': u'0', u'dns_name': u'ec2-35-165-135-112.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com', u'region': u'us-west-2', u'launch_time': u'2017-02-07T00:56:01.000Z', u'instance_type': u'm4.large', u'architecture': u'x86_64', u'hypervisor': u'xen'})

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=4    changed=2    unreachable=0    failed=0   

 [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Instead of sudo/sudo_user, use become/become_user and 
make sure become_method is 'sudo' (default).
This feature will be removed in a 
future release. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting 
deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************

 [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available

PLAY [Create AMI from running instance and terminate instance upon completion] *

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [Remove previous custom image (if it exists)] *****************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [Create AMI from temporary instance] **************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "the field 'args' has an invalid value, which appears to include a variable that is undefined. The error was: 'dict object' has no attribute u'tag_Name_faas_ami_builder'\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/Users/usr/faas/ec2/build-finish.yml': line 17, column 7, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n    - name: Create AMI from temporary instance\n      ^ here\n"}
    to retry, use: --limit @/Users/usr/faas/ec2/build-finish.retry

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1   

[shaananc]

Unfortunately we will not be able to attend to this for two weeks or so, but this error indicates that ansible couldn't find any hosts on which to run.

[tutumi]

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/23496

If you don't want to change the code, you can fix it using 'ansible<2.2' and it will work.

[Wout12345]

ansible/ansible#23496

If you don't want to change the code, you can fix it using 'ansible<2.2' and it will work.

How do you change the configuration so that it uses an older version of Ansible?

[tutumi]

ansible/ansible#23496 If you don't want to change the code, you can fix it using 'ansible<2.2' and it will work.

How do you change the configuration so that it uses an older version of Ansible?

You could try using a virtual env and installing via pip with pip install 'ansible<2.2'.