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How to have unique_name with Ansible and DO?

Trying to get my Ansible playbook to keep unique_names, but I can’t get this feature to work. Followed the tutorial on Ansible with DO 2.0 Api, but every time I run my playbook, totally new droplets are created with the SAME names!

Here’s my playbook, which otherwise works fine.

---
- hosts: digitalocean

  vars:
    do_token: xxxx
    droplets:
    - droplet-one
    - droplet-two

  tasks:
  - name: ensure key exists at DigitalOcean
    digital_ocean: >
      state=present
      command=ssh
      name=demo
      ssh_pub_key={{ lookup('file', '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}
      api_token={{ do_token }}
    register: demo


  - name: ensure droplets exist
    digital_ocean:
      state: present
      command: droplet
      name: "{{item}}"
      unique_name: yes
      size_id: 512mb
      region_id: sfo1
      image_id: 15764687
      private_networking: "yes"
      ssh_key_ids: "{{ demo.ssh_key.id }}"
      api_token: "{{ do_token }}"
    with_items: "{{droplets}}"
    register: droplet_details

  - debug: msg="IP is {{ item.droplet.ip_address }}"
    with_items: droplet_details.results
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ulutter • March 14, 2017

I had the same issue. Downgrading ansible to version 2.0 worked for me:

sudo pip install 'ansible>=2.0,<2.1'

If you then run your playbook you will see the following deprecation warning which points to the actual issue with latest ansible versions:

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Using bare variables is deprecated. Update your playbooks so that the environment value uses the
 full variable syntax ('{{droplet_details.results}}').
This feature will be removed in a future release. Deprecation
warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.

Hope that helps somebody :)

Brook Shelley • April 21, 2016

Hi,

One thing I noticed that would cause this is that your unique_name: yes statement should instead be unique_name=yes to match the tutorial:

  • name: ensure droplet one exists digital_ocean: > state=present command=droplet name=droplet-one unique_name=yes size_id=512mb Additionally, it’s likely the dual name declarations will cause an issue - It looks like you will need to use either - name: ensure key exists at DigitalOcean or - name: ensure droplets exist for this to work as expected.