Tweak some values to try and get things working.

playbooks/temp_cloud_instance.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
    - /srv/private/ansible/files/openstack/passwords.yml
   vars:
   - keypair: fedora-admin-20130801
-  - image: {{ centos70_x86_64 }}
+  - image: "{{ centos70_x86_64 }}"
   - instance_type: m1.small
   - security_group: web-80-anywhere-persistent,web-443-anywhere-persistent,ssh-anywhere-persistent,default
   - region: nova
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
     - net-id: "28db7265-fb78-4937-bfe3-9c8a9b959c30"
   - floating_ips:
      - "{{public_ip}}"
-
   tasks:
   - name: fail when name is not provided
     fail: msg="Please specify the name of the instance"

tasks/transient_cloud_new.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # New tasks to spin up instance in https://fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org
 
 - name: check it out
-  local_action: shell nc -d -z -w 5 {{ inventory_hostname }} 22 >>/dev/null
+  local_action: shell nc -d -z -w 5 {{ public_ip }} 22 >>/dev/null
   register: host_is_up
   ignore_errors: true