linode_module not working

[Michael Bushey]

I'm attempting to use the first example on page: http://docs.ansible.com/linode_module.html

⇒ ansible-playbook --version

ansible-playbook 1.7.2

⇒ ansible-playbook -i ../hosts create_web.yml

ERROR: datacenter is not a legal parameter at this level in an Ansible Playbook

 ⇒ cat create_web.yml 

---

- local_action:

  module: linode

  api_key: 'Myapikeyishere'

  name: web1

  plan: 2

  datacenter: 2

  distribution: 130

  password: 'mypasword'

any ideas?

[Dan Vaida]

You're missing indentation. Take a look at the examples on the module page.

Here's a good explanation: http://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2519916

[Michael Bushey]

Dan,

Thanks for your response. Since you feel my spacing is wrong, please
let me know what is wrong. Proving a link to yaml spacing whitepaper
is not helping. How do you propose that incorrect spacing will result
in the error of "ERROR: datacenter is not a legal parameter at this
level in an Ansible Playbook"? Typically spacing errors result in
something like "ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script".

Michael

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[Dan Vaida]

Hi Michael,

I'll provide a short example to prove my point (b11be68249):

$ cat whatever.yml

---

- hosts: localhost

  gather_facts: false

  vars:

    foo: bar

  tasks:

  - name: test

    local_action:

    module: copy

    src: ./src

    dest: ./dest

$ ansible-playbook whatever.yml

ERROR: dest is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler

Whereas:

$ cat whatever.yml

---

- hosts: localhost

  gather_facts: false

  vars:

    foo: bar

  tasks:

  - name: test

    local_action:

      module: copy

      src: ./src

      dest: ./dest

$ ansible-playbook whatever.yml

PLAY [localhost] **************************************************************

TASK: [test] ******************************************************************

ok: [localhost -> 127.0.0.1]

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************

localhost                  : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0

I'm sorry you feel like that way about the link. I know it's sometimes easy to oversee the local_action attribute. It is mostly used (although it's not the only way) when one calls SDK/APIs through localhost.

Can you perhaps show how and where you include this create_web.yml of yours? Perhaps the scope is not set right.

Cheers,

Dan.

[Michael Bushey]

Dan,

The second example worked, thank you for taking the time to resolve
this problem! :)

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