Error in redpanda-start.yaml (ansible)

[vlbogdan]

Good afternoon! I am installing via ansible, I ran into a problem when performing an operation on the start-redpanda.yml file, I get an error about an unknown variable, tell me what this variable is responsible for and how to call it.
start-redpanda.yml

- hosts: redpanda
  become: yes

  tasks:

  - name: ensure /etc/redpanda exists
    file:
      path: /etc/redpanda
      state: directory

  - name: configure redpanda
    notify:
      - restart redpanda-tuner
      - restart redpanda
    vars:
      use_public_ips: "{{ advertise_public_ips | d() | bool }}"
    shell: |
      set -e
      rpk config set cluster_id 'redpanda'
      rpk config set organization 'redpanda-test'
      rpk config set redpanda.advertised_kafka_api '{
      {% if use_public_ips %}
        address: {{ inventory_hostname }},
      {% else %}
        address: {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname].private_ip }},
      {% endif %}
        port: 9092
      }' --format yaml
      rpk config set redpanda.advertised_rpc_api '{
        address: {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname].private_ip }},
        port: 33145
      }' --format yaml
      sudo rpk mode production

      sudo rpk config set redpanda.rpc_server_tcp_recv_buf 65536

      {% if hostvars[groups['redpanda'][0]].id == hostvars[inventory_hostname].id %}
      sudo rpk config bootstrap \
        --id {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname].id }} \
        --self {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname].private_ip }}

      {% else %}

      sudo rpk config bootstrap \
        --id {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname].id }} \
        --self {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname].private_ip }} \
        --ips {{ groups["redpanda"] | map('extract', hostvars) | map(attribute='private_ip') | join(',') }}
      {% endif %}


  handlers:
  - name: restart redpanda-tuner
    systemd:
      name: redpanda-tuner
      state: restarted
  - name: restart redpanda
    systemd:
      name: redpanda
      state: restarted

Error:

fatal: [centos]: FAILED! => {
    "msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'ansible.vars.hostvars.HostVarsVars object' has no attribute 'private_ip'\n\nThe error appears to be in '/Users/bogdan/deployment-automation/ansible/playbooks/start-redpanda.yml': line 11, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n  - name: configure redpanda\n    ^ here\n"
}

[emaxerrno]

cc; @r-vasquez @vuldin

[vuldin]

Hi @vlbogdan , apologies for the slow response. I haven't ran into this issue, but I will try to track down some help.

[vuldin]

This seems to be related to a slack discussion: https://redpandacommunity.slack.com/archives/C01AJDUT88N/p1661240312226529
@r-vasquez responded in that thread saying hosts.ini needs to include private_ip, and that this is done automatically when using terraform to generate it. But you will need to include this manually in that file since you are not using terraform.

Let us know if this information helps, or if you have any further details/questions.

[vlbogdan]

yes, problem solved, thanks