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user2315104
user2315104

Reputation: 2722

how to put quotes properly in Ansible tasks

i am using following code in ansible tasks

- name: Check the status of application server {{ server }}
  command: /opt/serverStatus.sh {{ server }}
  register: url

- debug: msg="{{ url.stdout }}"

- name: start the application server
  command: /opt/startServer.sh {{ server }}
  when: msg | match("It appears to be stopped.")

getting following error :

fatal: server: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "The conditional check 'msg | match(\"It appears to be stopped.\")' failed. The error was: Unexpected templating type error occurred on ({% if msg | match(\"It appears to be stopped.\") %} True {% else %} False {% endif %}): expected string or buffer\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/home/abc/xyz/roles/was/tasks/main.yml': line 28, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: start the application server\n ^ here\n"}

please help where i am doing wrong. any quotes missing ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 523

Answers (1)

Konstantin Suvorov
Konstantin Suvorov

Reputation: 68229

This happens because msg is undefined. You want to use:

- name: start the application server
  command: /opt/startServer.sh {{ server }}
  when: url.stdout | match("It appears to be stopped.")

Upvotes: 1

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