I cannot get out of the gates with Ansible

[Julian Brown]

- I cannot get any playbook to work

- I am trying to use Ansible to configure cloud VM's for me.

- Macbook Pro is my central system

Here is my first playbook:

Julians-Macbook-Pro:deploy_with_ansible julianbrown$ cat deploy_julian_bin.yml

---

- hosts: all

remote_user: root

tasks:

- name: deploy bin git repo

  git:

    repo: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [ removed for privacy reasons ]

    dest: /root/bin

    version: master

So I am trying to follow playbooks and use them.

/etc/ansible/hosts

[all]

testing.tld

Julians-Macbook-Pro:deploy_with_ansible julianbrown$ ansible --version

ansible 2.4.0.0

  config file = /Users/julianbrown/ansible_deploy/deploy_with_ansible/ansible.cfg

  configured module search path = [u'/Users/julianbrown/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']

  ansible python module location = /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/2.4.0.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible

  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible

  python version = 2.7.14 (default, Sep 25 2017, 09:53:22) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.37)]

I get a syntax error, yet that is exactly the structure of most playbooks I have seen.

Julians-Macbook-Pro:deploy_with_ansible julianbrown$ ansible-playbook deploy_julian_bin.yml

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

The error appears to have been in '/Users/julianbrown/ansible_deploy/deploy_with_ansible/deploy_julian_bin.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: all

remote_user: root

^ here

exception type: <class 'yaml.parser.ParserError'>

exception: while parsing a block collection

  in "<unicode string>", line 2, column 1

did not find expected '-' indicator

  in "<unicode string>", line 3, column 1

What am I doing wrong?

Thanx

Julian

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Indentation :-)

Add two spaces in front of the remote_user to get past this particular problem.

-toshio

Thanx

Julian

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[Brian Coca]

Ansible uses YAML as the playbook format, which means
spaces/indentation is significant, make sure your playbook looks like
this:

---
- hosts: all
remote_user: root
tasks:
- name: deploy bin git repo
git:
repo: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [ removed for privacy reasons ]
dest: /root/bin
version: master

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Brian Coca

[Julian Brown]

Thank you that worked

Thanx

Julian

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