ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'amazon.aws.ec2'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.

[DougMelvin]

I did this last week for a different client and everything worked as expected (eventually). I've even nuked the VM I am working from and started completely from scratch five times so far. I am doing this on the most recent version of Ubuntu Desktop from within a Virtualbox VM. Please help me. I am at my wits' end.

Here are the steps I performed: (I have been at this for hours so may have forgotten to document one or more step below)

sudo apt update sudo apt install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible sudo apt install ansible sudo apt install python3-pip sudo apt install podman sudo apt install pwgen podman pull quay.io/coreos/butane:release sudo apt install git git clone https://github.com/forem/selfhost.git cd selfhost ./setup

-- added the vault keys including the silly indents with exactly the correct number of spaces. -- added the domain, subdomain and default email.

ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml ssh-keygen -t rsa pip3 install boto boto3 botocore

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip" unzip awscliv2.zip sudo ./aws/install

aws configure --profile forem-selfhost

ansible-playbook -i inventory/forem/setup.yml playbooks/providers/aws.yml

Then I get an error: _ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'amazon.aws.ec2'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.

The error appears to be in '/home/doug/selfhost/playbooks/providers/aws.yml': line 170, column 5, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

• name: "Launch Forem instance for {{ app_domain }}" ^ 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 }}"_

Thanks. Doug Melvin

[DougMelvin]

Either the AWS API changed or the latest version of the CLI or some other module but the result is that the module "amazon.aws.ec2" is not longer supported.

In /playbooks/providers/aws.yml starting at line 171 I needed to change amazon.aws.ec2 to _amazon.aws.ec2instance and update the parameters to match the expectations of the new module.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/amazon/aws/ec2_instance_module.html

There was also an error in the last two steps - deleting the content from the bucket and displaying the public IP address. I did not fix those as I was happy enough to get the instance deployed. I am pretty sure that _{{ forem_ec2_instance.tagged_instances | map(attribute='publicip') | list | first }} needs to be replaced with _{{ forem_ec2_instance.instances[0].public_ipaddres }}

Thanks, Doug Melvin

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