Two ansible commands to get the Route53 zone id for a given DNS zone

hosted_zone_id.yml

---
- name: get hosted zone info
  route53_facts:
    query: hosted_zone
  register: zone_info

- name: get zone id
  set_fact:
    zone_id: "{{ zone.Id | regex_replace('/hostedzone/', '') }}"
  when: zone.Name == route53_zone + '.'
  with_items: "{{ zone_info.HostedZones }}"
  loop_control:
    loop_var: zone

Much cleaner than my jinja mess, which outputs a list, anyway. Great stuff.

new_record_zone_id: "{{ hosted_zones.HostedZones | selectattr('Name', 'equalto', new_record_zone) | map(attribute='Id') | regex_replace('\/hostedzone\/', '') }}"

route53_facts has been deprecated and route53_info is now what should be used instead.

But thank you for this. Saved me a lot of time!