Unable to remove standalone etcd node

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What happened?

I am removing standalone etcd node (etcd on separate node - not on the master node).
Task [remove-node/remove-etcd-node : Make sure node_ip is set] is failing.

The previous task Lookup node IP in kubernetes Is trying to find the IP address of etcd node using kubectl get nodes <etcd node to be removed> ... command delegated to first etcd node. But this does not work on node which is not a member of k8s cluster (also the kubectl is not even installed on the node).

See roles/remove-node/remove-etcd-node/tasks/main.yml for more details

What did you expect to happen?

The playbook remove_node.yml will remove also standalone etcd node.

How can we reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?

Have a standalone etcd cluster (etcd nodes not on the k8s master nodes) and try to remove one etcd node

OS

AWX Execution environment based on centos:stream9 bud also my local environment:

Linux 6.8.4-200.fc39.x86_64 x86_64
NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="39 (Workstation Edition)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=39
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f39"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39"
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="fedora"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f39/system-administrators-guide/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=39
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=39
SUPPORT_END=2024-11-12
VARIANT="Workstation Edition"
VARIANT_ID=workstation

Version of Ansible

ansible [core 2.15.10]
config file = /home/mike/Documents/EMBL/kubespray-fork/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/home/mike/Documents/EMBL/kubespray-fork/library']
ansible python module location = /home/mike/Documents/EMBL/kubespray-fork/kubespray-2.24.0/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /home/mike/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /home/mike/Documents/EMBL/kubespray-fork/kubespray-2.24.0/bin/ansible
python version = 3.12.2 (main, Feb 21 2024, 00:00:00) [GCC 13.2.1 20231205 (Red Hat 13.2.1-6)] (/home/mike/Documents/EMBL/kubespray-fork/kubespray-2.24.0/bin/python3)
jinja version = 3.1.2
libyaml = True

Version of Python

Python 3.12.2

Version of Kubespray (commit)

64447e7

Network plugin used

calico

Full inventory with variables

don't think it's needed

Command used to invoke ansible

ansible-playbook -i ../inventory-kubespray/inventory.ini playbooks/remove_node.yml -e node=etcd03.example.com

Output of ansible run

LATEST_RELEASE=v2.24.0TASK [remove-node/remove-etcd-node : Make sure node_ip is set] ************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [ops-k1e01t.embl.de]: FAILED! => {
"assertion": "node_ip is defined and node_ip | length > 0",
"changed": false,
"evaluated_to": false,
"msg": "Etcd node ip is not set !"
}

Anything else we need to know

As a workaround i specified the node_ip variable as an extra var -e node_ip=<ip of the etcd node> for remove_node.yml playbook