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Smith
Smith

Reputation: 1

How to debug a failing Ansible playbook?

I keep getting errors on the user: (play) in the playbook. Ansible seeems to be complaining about the colon, but nothing I try works.

- hosts: all
  become: root
  tasks:

  -name: add user Natasha

    user:
    - name: natasha
    - comment:"Natasha Ping"
    - uid: 1027
    - group: ping

  -name: add user John

    user:
    - name: john
    - comment:"John Pong"
    - uid: 1028
    - group: ping

The expected result is that user natasha and john will be created on the hosts intended.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 262

Answers (1)

Ryan
Ryan

Reputation: 1628

Your YAML syntax has errors, pretty simple to fix. YAML is strict about spacing and the separators as Matthew noted.

This is your corrected syntax:

---

- hosts: all
  become: root
  tasks:

  - name: add user Natasha
    user:
      name: natasha
      comment: "Natasha Ping"
      uid: 1027
      group: ping

  - name: add user John
    user:
      name: john
      comment: "John Pong"
      uid: 1028
      group: ping

I'd also recommend using ansible-lint. It will help you spot errors and follow best practices.

Upvotes: 2

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