Ansible - Unable to look up a name or access an attribute in template string

calendar Jul 30, 2020 · 1 min read · ANSIBLE TROUBLESHOOTING  ·
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I was getting this odd error:

AnsibleUndefinedVariable: Unable to look up a name or access an attribute in template string ({% if ansible_fqdn in groups['compute_nodes'] %}

Turns out compute_nodes wasn't in my host inventory file.. oops! Easy fix, not so easy to diagnose