An exception occurred during task execution.

[Tony Wong]

I am trying to deploy new vmware vcsa appliance from iso usibg ansible

below is playbook

---

- hosts: localhost

  vars:

    name_iso: VMware-VCSA-all-6.7.0-16046470.iso

  tasks:

     - name: Creating a Directory to mount the iso file

       become: yes

       file:

         path: /mnt/iso

         state: directory

         mode: 0777

     - name: Mount vCSA6.7  iso to /mnt/iso directory

       mount:

        path: /mnt/iso

        src: /home/tony/temp/{{name_iso}}

        fstype: iso9660

        opts: ro,noauto

        state: present

     - name: Creating a Working Directory

       become: yes

       file:

         path: /vcsa

         state: directory

         mode: 0777

     - name: Copying contents to working Directory

       template:

         src: /mnt/iso/*

         dest: /vcsa

     - name: deployment of vcsa

       shell: ./vcsa-deploy install --no-esx-ssl-verify --accept-eula --acknowledge-ceip /home/tony/ansible-vmware/vcsa-deploy/config.json

       args:

        chdir: /VCSA-new/vcsa-cli-installer/lin64/

but its failing on the iso mount part

any idea?

TASK [Mount vCSA6.7  iso to /mnt/iso directory] *************************************************************************************************************************************

An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/fstab'

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591036438.98-60861409289967/AnsiballZ_mount.py\", line 102, in <module>\n    _ansiballz_main()\n  File \"/home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591036438.98-60861409289967/AnsiballZ_mount.py\", line 94, in _ansiballz_main\n    invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)\n  File \"/home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591036438.98-60861409289967/AnsiballZ_mount.py\", line 40, in invoke_module\n    runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible.modules.system.mount', init_globals=None, run_name='__main__', alter_sys=False)\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py\", line 192, in run_module\n    fname, loader, pkg_name)\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py\", line 72, in _run_code\n    exec code in run_globals\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_mount_payload_ufhUI0/ansible_mount_payload.zip/ansible/modules/system/mount.py\", line 751, in <module>\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_mount_payload_ufhUI0/ansible_mount_payload.zip/ansible/modules/system/mount.py\", line 735, in main\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_mount_payload_ufhUI0/ansible_mount_payload.zip/ansible/modules/system/mount.py\", line 284, in set_mount\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_mount_payload_ufhUI0/ansible_mount_payload.zip/ansible/modules/system/mount.py\", line 163, in write_fstab\nIOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/fstab'\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}

 

[Ompragash]

As you can see "IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/fstab'", you're executing the playbook with an unprivileged user. Try running the playbook with privileged user or use become directive for TASK [Mount vCSA6.7  iso to /mnt/iso directory].

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[Tony Wong]

thanks now i get this

TASK [Creating a Directory to mount the iso file] ***********************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /home/tony/ansible-vmware/vcsa-deploy/vcsa-deploy.yml:6
<127.0.0.1> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: tony
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~tony && sleep 0'
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591038655.19-107209855175299 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1591038655.19-107209855175299="` echo /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591038655.19-107209855175299 `" ) && sleep 0'
Using module file /home/tony/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/files/file.py
<127.0.0.1> PUT /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-14135_sPOWT/tmp_3K7YH TO /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591038655.19-107209855175299/AnsiballZ_file.py
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'chmod u+x /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591038655.19-107209855175299/ /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591038655.19-107209855175299/AnsiballZ_file.py && sleep 0'
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'sudo -H -S -n  -u root /bin/sh -c '"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-ccrzovesmfdvvyqstimtyqlawdjpeaxf ; /usr/bin/python /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591038655.19-107209855175299/AnsiballZ_file.py'"'"' && sleep 0'
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'rm -f -r /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591038655.19-107209855175299/ > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,

    "module_stderr": "sudo: a password is required\n",

    "module_stdout": "",
    "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",
    "rc": 1
}

PLAY RECAP **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
127.0.0.1                  : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

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[Dick Visser]

As you can see you ran into another privilege escalation issue.
Since this is an important topic, rather than going down the trial and
error path further, you are probably better of by reading the docs on
privilege escalation:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/become.html and try
to grasp the concept behind it.
It will be very useful.

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[Tony Wong]

ok got it fixed but now its having issues on next copying task

TASK [Creating a Working Directory] *************************************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /home/tony/ansible-vmware/vcsa-deploy/vcsa-deploy.yml:21

<127.0.0.1> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: tony
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~tony && sleep 0'

<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591051342.78-219752301038181 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1591051342.78-219752301038181="` echo /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591051342.78-219752301038181 `" ) && sleep 0'
Using module file /home/tony/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/files/file.py
<127.0.0.1> PUT /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-14943p5pRVm/tmpg2MvtR TO /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591051342.78-219752301038181/AnsiballZ_file.py
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'chmod u+x /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591051342.78-219752301038181/ /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591051342.78-219752301038181/AnsiballZ_file.py && sleep 0'
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'sudo -H -S  -p "[sudo via ansible, key=ymjggrenjkdverbptktaesjqbccosbfw] password:" -u root /bin/sh -c '"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-ymjggrenjkdverbptktaesjqbccosbfw ; /usr/bin/python /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591051342.78-219752301038181/AnsiballZ_file.py'"'"' && sleep 0'
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'rm -f -r /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591051342.78-219752301038181/ > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'
changed: [127.0.0.1] => {
    "changed": true,
    "diff": {
        "after": {
            "mode": "0777",
            "path": "/vcsa",
            "state": "directory"
        },
        "before": {
            "mode": "0755",
            "path": "/vcsa",
            "state": "absent"
        }
    },
    "gid": 0,
    "group": "root",
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "_diff_peek": null,
            "_original_basename": null,
            "access_time": null,
            "access_time_format": "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S",
            "attributes": null,
            "backup": null,
            "content": null,
            "delimiter": null,
            "directory_mode": null,
            "follow": true,
            "force": false,
            "group": null,
            "mode": 511,
            "modification_time": null,
            "modification_time_format": "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S",
            "owner": null,
            "path": "/vcsa",
            "recurse": false,
            "regexp": null,
            "remote_src": null,
            "selevel": null,
            "serole": null,
            "setype": null,
            "seuser": null,
            "src": null,
            "state": "directory",
            "unsafe_writes": null
        }
    },
    "mode": "0777",
    "owner": "root",
    "path": "/vcsa",
    "size": 4096,
    "state": "directory",
    "uid": 0
}

TASK [Copying contents to working Directory] ****************************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /home/tony/ansible-vmware/vcsa-deploy/vcsa-deploy.yml:27

<127.0.0.1> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: tony
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~tony && sleep 0'

<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591051343.05-86141275342768 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1591051343.05-86141275342768="` echo /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591051343.05-86141275342768 `" ) && sleep 0'
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'rm -f -r /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591051343.05-86141275342768/ > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,

    "msg": "Could not find or access '/mnt/iso/*' on the Ansible Controller.\nIf you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option"
}

PLAY RECAP **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
127.0.0.1                  : ok=4    changed=2    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

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[Dick Visser]

There is no copy task in your playbook.

There is a template task, which is meant for... templating files.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/template_module.html

Have a look at the copy module: 

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/copy_module.html

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[Tony Wong]

why do I keep failing on this copy task?

TASK [Copying contents to working Directory] ***************************************************************************************************************************************

task path: /home/tony/ansible-vmware/vcsa-deploy/vcsa-deploy.yml:28

<127.0.0.1> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: tony
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~tony && sleep 0'

<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591098693.86-2821013559691 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1591098693.86-2821013559691="` echo /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591098693.86-2821013559691 `" ) && sleep 0'
The full traceback is:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/home/tony/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/action/copy.py", line 464, in run
    source = self._find_needle('files', source)
  File "/home/tony/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py", line 1155, in _find_needle
    return self._loader.path_dwim_relative_stack(path_stack, dirname, needle)
  File "/home/tony/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/dataloader.py", line 319, in path_dwim_relative_stack
    raise AnsibleFileNotFound(file_name=source, paths=[to_native(p) for p in search])
AnsibleFileNotFound: Could not find or access '/mnt/iso/*' on the Ansible Controller.

If you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,

    "invocation": {
        "dest": "/vcsa",
        "module_args": {
            "dest": "/vcsa",
            "src": "/mnt/iso/*"
        },
        "src": "/mnt/iso/*"

    },
    "msg": "Could not find or access '/mnt/iso/*' on the Ansible Controller.\nIf you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option"
}

---------------

I changed the p[laybook to copy

---
- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    name_iso: VMware-VCSA-all-6.7.0-16046470.iso
  tasks:
     - name: Creating a Directory to mount the iso file
       become: yes

       become_method: sudo

       file:
         path: /mnt/iso
         state: directory
         mode: 0777
     - name: Mount vCSA6.7  iso to /mnt/iso directory
       mount:
        path: /mnt/iso
        src: /home/tony/temp/{{name_iso}}
        fstype: iso9660
        opts: ro,noauto

        state: mounted
       become: yes
       become_method: sudo

     - name: Creating a Working Directory
       become: yes
       file:
         path: /vcsa
         state: directory
         mode: 0777
     - name: Copying contents to working Directory

       copy:

         src: /mnt/iso/*
         dest: /vcsa
     - name: deployment of vcsa
       shell: ./vcsa-deploy install --no-esx-ssl-verify --accept-eula --acknowledge-ceip /home/tony/ansible-vmware/vcsa-deploy/config.json

       become: yes
       become_method: sudo

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[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

Hello Tony,

the copy module doesn't expand wildcards, so you either need to lookup the files on the Ansible controller
or use the directory path as src parameter:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/copy_module.html#parameter-src

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[Tony Wong]

I am trying to use iso_extract to copy the iso contents to a directory. can i do that? Still getting error

TASK [Copy contents to working directory] *****************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /home/tony/ansible-vmware/vcsa-deploy/vcsa-deploy.yml:29

<127.0.0.1> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: tony
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~tony && sleep 0'

<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591106235.25-162698201745630 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1591106235.25-162698201745630="` echo /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591106235.25-162698201745630 `" ) && sleep 0'
Using module file /home/tony/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/files/iso_extract.py
<127.0.0.1> PUT /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-18561PFMSaV/tmp7y39M1 TO /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591106235.25-162698201745630/AnsiballZ_iso_extract.py
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'chmod u+x /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591106235.25-162698201745630/ /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591106235.25-162698201745630/AnsiballZ_iso_extract.py && sleep 0'
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591106235.25-162698201745630/AnsiballZ_iso_extract.py && sleep 0'
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'rm -f -r /home/tony/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1591106235.25-162698201745630/ > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'
The full traceback is:
WARNING: The below traceback may *not* be related to the actual failure.
  File "/tmp/ansible_iso_extract_payload_IbRncr/ansible_iso_extract_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/basic.py", line 1562, in _check_required_arguments
    check_required_arguments(spec, param)
  File "/tmp/ansible_iso_extract_payload_IbRncr/ansible_iso_extract_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/common/validation.py", line 193, in check_required_arguments
    raise TypeError(to_native(msg))

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {

        "module_args": {
            "dest": "/vcsa",
            "force": true,
            "image": "/home/temp/VMware-VCSA-all-6.7.0-16046470.iso"
        }
    },
    "msg": "missing required arguments: files"

 name: Copy contents to working directory
       iso_extract:
        image: /home/temp/VMware-VCSA-all-6.7.0-16046470.iso
        dest: /vcsa
#     - name: deployment of vcsa

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[Tony Wong]

ok I got the copy to work. 

instead of copying, cant I just run vcsa-deply directory from mnt/iso?

[Tony Wong]

ok got it working now