Fix fact gathering when using --limit

If an operator wants to deploy a single node (e.g. add an additional
compute), they may want to use the --limit feature of Ansible to avoid
waiting for every play across every node.

The problem with this is that --limit will gather facts for that node
only, causing template errors such as the infamous ('dict object' has no
attribute u'ansible_eth0'").

Ansible has catered to this problem to an extent with it's
"delegate_facts" mechanism. The only problem is that in the default 'all
nodes' case, we end up with a storm of SSHs as each node SSHs to every
other. I'm solving this with a separate task to only use this mechanism
when a subset of nodes has been specified (see ansible_play_batch).

Useful links on this subject:
- https://medium.com/@george.shuklin/perfecting-forced-fact-gathering-in-ansible-1611f9c8d0d5#.tr5zs3e7x
- http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_delegation.html#delegated-facts

Change-Id: Ibb691eae15cacd9e5129ae9280fd296f5ba95940
Closes-Bug: 1642004
This commit is contained in:
Paul Bourke 2016-11-15 17:14:35 +00:00
parent 00c068a173
commit cf81958f66

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# set to 'false' is a bit confusing but this is to avoid
# Ansible gathering facts twice.
- name: Gather facts for all hosts
hosts:
- all
hosts: all
serial: '{{ serial|default("0") }}'
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- setup:
tags: always
# NOTE(pbourke): This case covers deploying subsets of hosts using --limit. The
# limit arg will cause the first play to gather facts only about that node,
# meaning facts such as IP addresses for rabbitmq nodes etc. will be undefined
# in the case of adding a single compute node.
# We don't want to add the delegate parameters to the above play as it will
# result in ((num_nodes-1)^2) number of SSHs when running for all nodes
# which can be very inefficient.
- name: Gather facts for all hosts (if using --limit)
hosts: all
serial: '{{ serial|default("0") }}'
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- setup:
delegate_facts: True
delegate_to: "{{ item }}"
with_items: "{{ groups['all'] }}"
when:
- (play_hosts | length) != (groups['all'] | length)
- hosts:
- all
roles: