issues with variables

[Daley Okuwa]

Hello

i run a playbook and do get this error message 

:/etc/ansible$ ansible-playbook -u dokuwa1 --ask-pass playbook/apache.yml

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

The error appears to have been in '/etc/ansible/playbook/apache.yml': line 3, column 2, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

- hosts: all

 vars_files:

 ^ here

This is the playbook 

---

- hosts: all

 vars_files:

    - vars.yml

  sudo: yes

  tasks:

    - name:  install apache2

      apt: name={{item}} state=present update_cache=yes

      with_items:

        - libapache2-mod-wsgi

        - python-pip

        - python-virtualenv

    - name: start apache service

      service: name=apache2 state=started enabled=yes

    - name : verify apache service

      command: service apache2 status

    - name: verify apache listening port is 80

      wait_for: port=80 timeout=1

    - name: ensure mod_wsgi enabled

      apache2_module: state=present name=wsgi

      notify: restart apache2

    - name: copy files

      copy: src=/etc/ansible/playbook/ dest=/tmp mode=0755

      notify: restart apache2

    - name: delete a file

      file: path=/tmp/apache.yml state=absent

    - name: reinstate file that was deleted

      lineinfile: dest=/tmp/hostname.yml regexp=^hostname

                  line="ping 192.168.85.129"

  handlers:

     - name: restart apache2

       service: name=apache2 state=restarted

The issue is with the variable vars which is vars.yml which is in the same directory with apache.yml

 this is also the vars.yml file

 more playbook/vars.yml                            ---

auth:

  - { username: dokuwa1, password: xxxxxx }

Thanks

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 04. juni 2017 13:30, 'Daley Okuwa' via Ansible Project wrote:
> Hello
> i run a playbook and do get this error message
> :/etc/ansible$ ansible-playbook -u dokuwa1 --ask-pass playbook/apache.yml
>
> ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
>
>
> The error appears to have been in '/etc/ansible/playbook/apache.yml': line
> 3, column 2, but may
> be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
>
> The offending line appears to be:
>
> - hosts: all
> vars_files:
> ^ here
>
>
> This is the playbook
>
> ---
> - hosts: all
> vars_files:
> - vars.yml
> sudo: yes

In yaml indentation is important and need to be consistent with number
of spaces.

Your var_files has only 1 space in front, it need to have 2 spaces so
it's consistent with the rest.

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Daley Okuwa]

Hello thanks

It is not retrieving this error 

but there is one thing i expect it not to ask me for my  username and password 

I thought that variable should take care of that 

what am i doing wrong 

[Daley Okuwa]

Hello thanks

It is not retrieving this error 

but there is one thing i expect it not to ask me for my  username and password 

I thought that variable should take care of that 

what am i doing wrong 

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[Trond Hindenes]

use an editor with yaml validation when writing you playbooks, that will take care of errors like this. VSCode has a yaml plugin for instance.

[Daley Okuwa]

Thanks

But is this the issue as it as I still have to key in my password 

I thought the variable would authenticate for me 

Thanks

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On Sun, 4 Jun 2017 at 17:14, Trond Hindenes

<tr...@hindenes.com> wrote:

use an editor with yaml validation when writing you playbooks, that will take care of errors like this. VSCode has a yaml plugin for instance.

On Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 5:01:19 PM UTC+2, Daley Okuwa wrote:

Hello thanks

It is not retrieving this error 

but there is one thing i expect it not to ask me for my  username and password 

I thought that variable should take care of that 

what am i doing wrong 

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To: ansible...@googlegroups. com
Sent: Sunday, 4 June 2017, 13:14
Subject: Re: [ansible-project] issues with variables

On 04. juni 2017 13:30, 'Daley Okuwa' via Ansible Project wrote:
> Hello
> i run a playbook and do get this error message
> :/etc/ansible$ ansible-playbook -u dokuwa1 --ask-pass playbook/apache.yml
>
> ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
>
>

> The error appears to have been in '/etc/ansible/playbook/apache. yml': line

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[Trond Hindenes]

The issue is that your yaml file is malformed, so Ansible doesn't understand it. For just getting started/testing things out, the easiest is probably to put the password in your inventory file. I would recommend reading up on that here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html, especially the section "list-of-behavioral-inventory-parameters".

[Daley Okuwa]

Hello

I still have issues with password 

i have added username and  password to the inventory file and have used yamllink to validate my yaml 

at the command line i have to request for password all the time 

ansible_connection=ssh

ansible_port=22

ansible_user=dokuwa1

ansible_ssh_pass=xxxx

My command is without password is 

ansible-playbook -playbook/apache.yml - it fails

and with username  password 

ansible-playbook -u dokuwa1 --ask-pass playbook/apache.yml - it does not fail

thanks

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[Karol Czeryna]

For the future I would strongly recommend to you to start using linter.

Even http://www.yamllint.com/ is fine :)

Best,

Karol

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[Daley Okuwa]

Hello

Yes it looks very good yamllint.com i have tried it 

but also still having issues with password and username 

i want a situation where it does not ask me for my username & password

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Best,

Karol

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[Karol Czeryna]

Use your public/private key then.

By default Ansible will try to use those keys that are in the “ssh-agent” but you can also provide a path for the key in the inventory / vars / etc.

Basically everything is well explained here: 

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_getting_started.html

Best,

Karol

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[Daley Okuwa]

Karol,

Yes thanks

i was able to resolve the issue of  prompting password for my user  i had to go to ansible.cfg and change the ask-pass  value to false

but the only issue is that i could not do this for root as i need the password prompt to install some packages 

Is there any way out for root or sudo 

Thanks 

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[Karol Czeryna]

Daley,

Please read documentation: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/become.html

Best,

Karol

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