[Help] Could not match supplied host pattern

[Deanosim]

I'm learning Ansible and other things from this guide https://github.com/Artemmkin/infrastructure-as-code-tutorial/blob/master/docs/06-ansible.md
Only problem is whenever I try and run deply.yml I get

 [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match

'all'

 [WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: raddit-app

PLAY [Deploy Raddit App] ***********************************************************************************************

skipping: no hosts matched

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

I know this is probably caused by the fact the guide was written for 2.4 of Ansible but I'd like to update it to use 2.6 aka the latest.

I can post my hosts.yml deply.yml and ansiblecfg if needed, but all that same info is in the guide I linked.

Any help would be very much appreciated as I'm a noob when It comes to Ansible and I really want to learn it better.

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 15.07.2018 20:35, Deanosim wrote:
> I'm learning Ansible and other things from this guide
> https://github.com/Artemmkin/infrastructure-as-code-tutorial/blob/master/docs/06-ansible.md
> Only problem is whenever I try and run deply.yml I get
> [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available.
> Note
> that the implicit localhost does not match
> 'all'
>
> [WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: raddit-app
>
>
> PLAY [Deploy Raddit App]
> ***********************************************************************************************
> skipping: no hosts matched
>
> PLAY RECAP
> *************************************************************************************************************
>
> I know this is probably caused by the fact the guide was written for
> 2.4 of
> Ansible but I'd like to update it to use 2.6 aka the latest.

I highly doubt it since this part haven't change for many versions.

> I can post my hosts.yml deply.yml and ansiblecfg if needed, but all
> that
> same info is in the guide I linked.

You would need to, if not we are left to speculate and guess and that is
not very productive.

> Any help would be very much appreciated as I'm a noob when It comes to
> Ansible and I really want to learn it better.

The important thing when you need help is to provide as much information
that you can.
A little to much information is better then to little.

--
Kai Stian Olstad

[Deanosim]

ansible.cfg

[defaults]

inventory = ./hosts.yml

private_key_file = ~/.ssh/raddit-user

host_key_checking = False

deploy.yml

---

- name: Deploy Raddit App

  hosts: raddit-app

  tasks:

    - name: Fetch the latest version of application code

      git:

        repo: 'https://github.com/Artemmkin/raddit.git'

        dest: /home/raddit-user/raddit

      register: clone

    - name: Install application dependencies

      become: true

      bundler:

        state: present

        chdir: /home/raddit-user/raddit

      when: clone.changed

      notify: restart raddit

  handlers:

  - name: restart raddit

    become: true

    systemd: name=raddit state=restarted

hosts.yml

raddit-app:

  hosts:

    raddit-instance

      ansible_host: **IP ADDRESS GOES HERE**

      ansible_user: raddit-user

[Kai Stian Olstad]

You are missing a colon after raddit-instance.


--
Kai Stian Olstad

[Deanosim]

Ohhhh, this is why you don't do this after 2am at night XD.

Sadly it's still giving me that error even after I added the colon :/, clearly I'm missing something still

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 16.07.2018 11:02, Deanosim wrote:
> Ohhhh, this is why you don't do this after 2am at night XD.
>
> Sadly it's still giving me that error even after I added the colon :/,
> clearly I'm missing something still

If all three files is in the same directory and you are in that
directory when running "ansible-playbook deploy.yml" it should work.

--
Kai Stian Olstad

[Deanosim]

Yeah all files are in the same directory and I'm running it from that directory.
Yet for some odd reason it's still giving me that error, I'm wondering if I should setup a fresh vm with ansible to test it on that.
The error again just to show it's the same

 [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all'

 [WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: raddit-app

PLAY [Deploy Raddit App] ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

skipping: no hosts matched

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

[Deanosim]

Okay I manged to get it to work, For some reason on the ubuntu 18.04 version of windows subsystem for linux it just doesn't work, but in a VM of ubuntu 18.04 it works fine