Awx: inventory from us-gov-east-1

[sentient]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

SUMMARY

Unable to set region of GovCloud us east;
us-gov-east-1

ENVIRONMENT

• AWX version: 14.0.0
• AWX install method: docker on linux
• Ansible version: 2.9.11
• Operating System: Ubuntu
• Web Browser: Chrome

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Click \ Inventories \ sources \ Amazon EC2 \ Regions drop down does not have a US-EAST (GovCloud)

EXPECTED RESULTS

I expected it would have this option

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I also cannot find any workaround. If I would set it to all it would fail

1.872 INFO     Updating inventory 2: test-east-us-gov
2.272 INFO     Reading Ansible inventory source: /tmp/awx_8_bny8y3fg/aws_ec2.yml
2.274 INFO     Using VIRTUAL_ENV: /var/lib/awx/venv/ansible
2.275 INFO     Using PATH: /var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/bin:/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/bin:/usr/pgsql-10/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
2.275 INFO     Using PYTHONPATH: /var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python3.6/site-packages:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/bin/awx-manage", line 8, in
sys.exit(manage())
File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/__init__.py", line 154, in manage
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 381, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 375, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 323, in run_from_argv
self.execute(args, *cmd_options)
File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 364, in execute
output = self.handle(args, *options)
File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/inventory_import.py", line 1149, in handle
raise exc
File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/inventory_import.py", line 1039, in handle
venv_path=venv_path, verbosity=self.verbosity).load()
File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/inventory_import.py", line 215, in load
return self.command_to_json(base_args + ['--list'])
File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/inventory_import.py", line 198, in command_to_json
self.method, proc.returncode, stdout, stderr))
RuntimeError: ansible-inventory failed (rc=1) with stdout:
stderr:
ansible-inventory 2.9.11
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/var/lib/awx/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-inventory
python version = 3.6.8 (default, Apr 16 2020, 01:36:27) [GCC 8.3.1 20191121 (Red Hat 8.3.1-5)]
Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
Could not connect to the endpoint URL: "https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/"
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 280

[wenottingham]

@chrismeyersfsu how would your plugin change affect this?

We are in the process of changing how this region would be passed, but we do want to ensure that it works.

[chrismeyersfsu]

Inventory plugins will now take data directly from source_vars and should be of the form documented in ansible https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/inventory/aws_ec2.html#parameter-regions

plugin: aws_ec2
regions:
  - us-gov-east-1

[kdelee]

I think this is better placed in needs_docs to update info about regions in https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/inventories.html#id2

@tvo318 ^

[kdelee]

@elyezer seems like @tvo318 and @chrismeyersfsu maybe need to get together to make sure all inventory docs are updated because of merge of https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/7763 for https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/5150

[elyezer]

https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/5150#issuecomment-669495939 shows how to configure the source_vars to keep the previous behavior, expand the aws section there.

Also the docs https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/inventory/aws_ec2.html#parameter-regions will provide how to set the various different options in case you want to change something.

[kdelee]

yeah I think we just need to get that info into the tower docs

[elyezer]

That information will be added to the docs