Hi I am having a task which is as follows
- name: Replace log directory in configuration
lineinfile:
path: $HOME/amsible_test/test.txt
regexp: '^dataDir='
line: 'dataDir=$HOME/.zookeeper_log'
it's running fine , But issue is that this is writing line as dataDir=$HOME/.zookeeper_log
but as per my understanding it should parse $HOME as /home/username as per ubuntu 16.04 .It should write dataDir=/home/username/.zookeeper.log but not doing as expected.
any suggestion what i am doing wrong . I tried many alternate for string parsing purpose but no luck.
Thanks in advance
Hi this worked for me ..
- name: test connection
shell: echo $HOME
register: user_home
- name: Replace log directory in configuration
lineinfile:
path: $HOME/amsible_test/test.txt
regexp: '^dataDir='
line: 'dataDir={{user_home.stdout}}/.zookeeper_log'
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I am creating a role to deploy Jira instance. My question is, how I can move files from one directory to another, I was trying something like this:
- name: Create Jira installation directory
command: mv "/tmp/atlassian-jira-software-{{ jira_version }}-standalone/*" "{{ installation_directory }}"
when: not is_jira_installed.stat.exists
But It's not working, I want to copy all files from one directory to another without copying the directory.
From the synopsis of the command module:
The command(s) will not be processed through the shell, so variables like $HOSTNAME and operations like "*", "<", ">", "|", ";" and "&" will not work. Use the ansible.builtin.shell module if you need these features.
So, your issue is the fact that the command module is not expanding the wildcard *, as you expect it, you should be using the shell module instead:
- name: Create Jira installation directory
shell: "mv /tmp/atlassian-jira-software-{{ jira_version }}-standalone/* {{ installation_directory }}"
when: not is_jira_installed.stat.exists
Now, please note that you can also make this without having to resort to a command or shell, by using the copy module.
- copy:
src: "/tmp/atlassian-jira-software-{{ jira_version }}-standalone/"
dest: "{{ installation_directory }}"
remote_src: yes
I'm trying to include a file in which I declare some repetitive jobs, I'm using extends.
I always have this error did not find expected key while parsing a block
this is the template file
.deploy_dev:
stage: deploy
image: nexus
script:
- ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa -o "StrictHostKeyChecking=no" sellerbot#sb-dev -p 10290 'sudo systemctl restart mail.service'
only:
- dev
this is the main file
include:
- project: 'sellerbot/gitlab-ci'
ref: master
file: 'deploy.yml'
deploy_dev:
extends: .deploy_dev
Can anyone help me please
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It looks like just stage: deploy has to be indented. In this case it's a good idea to use gilab CI line tool to check if CI pipeline code is valid or just YAML validator. When I checked section from template file in yaml linter I've got
(<unknown>): mapping values are not allowed in this context at line 3 column 8
We have to install Apache, copy configuration files, and then start and configure it to run.
Here is the playbook written thus far:
---
- hosts: example
tasks:
- name:Install Apache
command: yum install --quiet -y httpd httpd-devel
- name:Copy configuration files
command:>
cp httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
- command:>
cp httpd-vshosts.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-vshosts.conf
- name:Start Apache and configure it to run
command: service httpd start
- command: chkconfig httpd on
However, when I run the command: ansible-playbook playbook.yml, I recieve this:
error: ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
The error appears to have been in '/etc/ansible/playbook.yml': line 3, column 1, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
- hosts: example
tasks:
^ here
I have tried messing with whitespace and re-arranging things, but I still recieve this error. I am sure it's something small I am missing here, but it is bugging me to no end! Any help would be appreciated! Thanks so much.
Regarding your error message, you need to pay attention to indentation. This is how it should look like:
---
- hosts: example
tasks:
- name: Install Apache
command: yum install --quiet -y httpd httpd-devel
- name: Copy configuration files
command: cp httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
- command: cp httpd-vshosts.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-vshosts.conf
- name: Start Apache and configure it to run
command: service httpd start
- command: chkconfig httpd on
But this is rather an example of how not to use Ansible.
I assume you just started to use Ansible and want to verify things, but instead of running everything with command module, you should rather take advantage of native modules, like yum or service. Have a look at the examples in the linked documentation pages.
Also take notice that in your example some tasks have names some don't. For example these are two different tasks (the first one with a name, the seconds one without):
- name: Copy configuration files
command: cp httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
- command: cp httpd-vshosts.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-vshosts.conf
More appropriate naming should be:
- name: Copy one configuration file
command: cp httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
- name: Copy another configuration file
command: cp httpd-vshosts.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-vshosts.conf
Another problem: this command will fail as there should be no httpd-vshosts.conf in the current directory on the target machine:
- command: cp httpd-vshosts.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-vshosts.conf
You must provide the full path.
i am trying to deploy a VM via Ansible on my ESXi host.
I am using the following role for this:
- vsphere_guest:
vcenter_hostname: emea-esx-s18t.****.net
username: ****
password: ****
guest: newvm001
state: powered_off
vm_extra_config:
vcpu.hotadd: yes
mem.hotadd: yes
notes: This is a test VM
vm_disk:
disk1:
size_gb: 10
type: thin
datastore: ****
vm_nic:
nic1:
type: vmxnet3
network: VM Network
network_type: standard
vm_hardware:
memory_mb: 4096
num_cpus: 4
osid: windows7Server64Guest
scsi: paravirtual
esxi:
datacenter: MyDatacenter
hostname: esx-s18t.****.net
when i execute this role now via a playbook i get the following message:
root#ansible1:~/ansible# ansible-playbook -i Inventory vmware_deploy.yml
PLAY ***************************************************************************
TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [172.20.22.5]
TASK [vmware : vsphere_guest] **************************************************
fatal: [172.20.22.5]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "pysphere module required"}
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
172.20.22.5 : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1
So it seems to be "pysphere" module is missing. i've already checked that with the command:
root#ansible1:~/ansible# pip install pysphere
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pysphere in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pysphere-0 .1.7-py2.7.egg
Then i did the "upgrade" and get the following message back:
root#ansible1:~/ansible# pip install pysphere --upgrade
Requirement already up-to-date: pysphere in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pysphere-0.1.7-py2.7.egg
So it seems to be it is already installed and its up-to-date , why do i get this error message then?
How can i fix it that my god damn role works fine now?
Jesus, Ansible makes me crazy ..
I hope you guys can help me, thanks in advance!
kind regards,
kgierman
EDIT:
so i've writen a new playbook with the old stuff, the new playbool lookes like this(i've added your localhost and connection local stuff):
---
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
tasks:
vsphere_guest:
vcenter_hostname: emea-esx-s18t.****.net
username: ****
password: ****
guest: newvm001
state: powered_off
vm_extra_config:
vcpu.hotadd: yes
mem.hotadd: yes
notes: This is a test VM
vm_disk:
disk1:
size_gb: 10
type: thin
datastore: ****
vm_nic:
nic1:
type: vmxnet3
network: VM Network
network_type: standard
vm_hardware:
memory_mb: 4096
num_cpus: 4
osid: windows7Server64Guest
scsi: paravirtual
esxi:
datacenter: MyDatacenter
hostname: esx-s18t.****.net
so when i execute this playbook i get the following error:
root#ansible1:~/ansible# ansible-playbook vmware2.yml
ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
The error appears to have been in '/root/ansible/vmware2.yml': line 7, column 19, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
vcenter_hostname: emea-esx-s18t.sddc-hwl-family.net
username: root
^ here
the struggle is real -.-
You generally should execute provisioning modules such as vsphere_guest on your local ansible machine.
I suspect that 172.20.22.5 is actually your ESX host, and ansible try to execute module from there, where pysphere is surely absent.
Use:
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- vsphere_guest:
...
Ran into this issue once again on macOS / OSX...
It seems to be related to PYTHONPATH.
I have this in my .profile:
export PYTHONPATH="/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages"
[ ... further down ... ]
export PYTHONPATH="/usr/local/Cellar/ansible/2.1.2.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages:/usr/local/Cellar/ansible/2.2.1.0/libexec/vendor/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH"
The first line with PYTHONPATH is where pysphere and other system modules reside.
Also take note of the specific version of Ansible!
Anyway, this seems to resolve the issue.
Source: https://github.com/debops/debops-tools/issues/159#issuecomment-236536195
I'm trying to run my first playbook to install Java on four servers and subsequently define a JAVA_HOME environment variable.
ansible-playbook site.yml --check
PLAY [crave_servers] **********************************************************
GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [54.174.151.196]
ok: [54.174.197.35]
ok: [54.174.207.83]
ok: [54.174.208.240]
TASK: [java | install Java JDK] ***********************************************
changed: [54.174.197.35]
changed: [54.174.151.196]
changed: [54.174.208.240]
changed: [54.174.207.83]
ERROR: change handler (setvars) is not defined
I've placed my site.yml under /etc/ansible
---
- hosts: crave_servers
remote_user: ubuntu
sudo: yes
roles:
- java
I've placed main.yml under /etc/ansible/java/tasks
---
- name: install Java JDK
apt: name=default-jdk state=present
notify:
- setvars
I've placed main.yml under /etc/ansible/handlers
---
- name: setvars
shell: echo "JAVA_HOME=\"/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64\"" >> /etc/environment
Now I'm not sure if the syntax is structure of my handlers is correct. But it's obvious from the output that Ansible is able to find the correct role and execute the correct task. But the task can't find the handler.
Nobody else seems to have the same problem. And I don't really know how to debug it because my ansible version seems to be missing the config file.
You should put your handler to /etc/ansible/java/handlers/main.yml
As handlers are part of a role.
Remarks:
You should not use your handler as it would paste the line into /etc/environment each time you call this playbook. I would recommend the lineinefile module.
You should reconsider your decision to put ansible playbooks into /etc