Ansible 2.3 create new group on a host fails.

[NixGeek]

My Ansible version:

ansible-playbook 2.3.1.0

  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

  python version = 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

Per the documentation to add a group

# Example group command from Ansible Playbooks
- group:
    name: somegroup
    state: present

My playbook
======================================
---

- hosts: myhosts
  tasks:

- group:
    name: useradmins
    state: present
=======================================

when I run I get errors:

# ansible-playbook -v addgroup.yml

Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file

ERROR! 'group' is not a valid attribute for a Play

The error appears to have been in '/etc/ansible/playbooks/addgroup.yml': line 6, column 3, but may

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

The offending line appears to be:

- group:

  ^ here

============================================================

What gives? any ideas.  I've searched for an answer found didly squat.  Nothing really about group ansible module.

[Andreas Olsson]

lör 2017-07-15 klockan 09:18 -0700 skrev NixGeek:
> My playbook
> ======================================
> ---
>
> - hosts: myhosts
>   tasks:
>
> - group:
>     name: useradmins
>     state: present
> =======================================

It looks as if you have gotten the indentation wrong. You want the
group creation to be a list item under tasks.

- hosts: myhosts
  tasks:
    - group:
        name: useradmins
        state: present

// Andreas

[NixGeek]

man one reason ansible makes me crazy is the silly indented crap in the playbook.

Thank you for helping me.

[Andreas Olsson]

lör 2017-07-15 klockan 11:04 -0700 skrev NixGeek:
> man one reason ansible makes me crazy is the silly indented crap in
> the playbook.

That "silly indented crap" is more formally referred to as YAML. For
better or worse it's fairly commonly used. Investing a bit of time in
understanding YAML will easily pay off in the long run.

Using a text editor with YAML support is also helpful.

// Andreas