VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED from referenced variable with value

[bamb00]

ISSUE TYPE: Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME: Referencing from ecs_taskdefinition module

ANSIBLE VERSION: 2.1.1.0

CONFIGURATION: Nothing special

OS / ENVIRONMENT: Nothing special

SUMMARY: task_output result from a debug statement,

"task_output": {
     "changed": false, 
     "taskdefinition": {
         "containerDefinitions": [
             {
                 "cpu": 512, 
                 "environment": [], 
                 "essential": true, 
                 "image": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx.dkr.ecr.xx-xxxx-x.amazonaws.com/xxxx_xxx_framework:v0.1.4.58.xxxxxxxxx", 
                 "logConfiguration": {
                     "logDriver": "awslogs", 
                     "options": {
                         "awslogs-group": "ContainerLogsGroup", 
                         "awslogs-region": "xx-xxxx-x", 
                         "awslogs-stream-prefix": "xxxxt-xxxframework"
                     }
                 }, 
                 "memory": 1200, 
                 "mountPoints": [], 
                 "name": "xxxx-webframework", 
                 "portMappings": [
                     {
                         "containerPort": 3000, 
                         "hostPort": 3000, 
                         "protocol": "tcp"
                     }
                 ], 
                 "volumesFrom": []
             }
         ], 
         "family": "xxxx-webframework", 

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
"- debug: var=task_output.taskdefinition.containerDefinitions[0].logConfiguration.options.awslogs-group"

EXPECTED RESULTS:
ContainerLogsGroup

ACTUAL RESULTS:
task_output.taskdefinition.containerDefinitions[0].logConfiguration.options.awslogs-group: "VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!"

NOTE:
The reference seems to be ok up to 'options',
ok: [localhost] => {
"task_output.taskdefinition.containerDefinitions[0].logConfiguration.options": {
"awslogs-group": "ContainerLogsGroup",
"awslogs-region": "xx-xxxx-x",
"awslogs-stream-prefix": "xxxx-webframework"
}
}

[kkarimi]

This is not a bug, it happens because "awslogs-group" variable has a dash in the name which ansible will not handle (see e.g. #3907)

If you do have jq installed, you can use it to get the value with a task like this:

- shell: "aws ecs describe-task-definition --task-definition your_task_definition:task_revision | jq '.taskDefinition.containerDefinitions[0].logConfiguration.options.\"awslogs-group\"'"

[bamb00]

Hi, what is jq?

[kkarimi]

@bamb00 I updated it with a link, it's a JSON processor that will help to process the output from the task

[bamb00]

I wonder if I can use awk or sed to retrieve the awslogs-group instead of jq.

[kkarimi]

@bamb00 you can use whatever tool you like