--- - name: Launch instance(s) hosts: localhost connection: local gather_facts: no vars: inst_names: "{{ oo_new_inst_names }}" machine_type: n1-standard-1 image: libra-rhel7 vars_files: - vars.yml tasks: - name: Launch instances gce: instance_names: "{{ inst_names }}" machine_type: "{{ machine_type }}" image: "{{ image }}" service_account_email: "{{ gce_service_account_email }}" pem_file: "{{ gce_pem_file }}" project_id: "{{ gce_project_id }}" tags: "{{ oo_new_inst_tags }}" register: gce - name: Add new instances public IPs to oo_hosts_to_config add_host: "hostname={{ item.name }} ansible_ssh_host={{ item.public_ip }} groupname=oo_hosts_to_config" with_items: gce.instance_data - name: Wait for ssh wait_for: "port=22 host={{ item.public_ip }}" with_items: gce.instance_data - debug: var=gce # Apply the configs, seprate so that just the configs can be run by themselves - include: config.yml