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Matt Salem
Matt Salem

Reputation: 95

Ansible cant parse inventory

I am trying to create a ansible inventory with the command

ansible inventory --inventory=./module7_task0/ansible/inventory.yml --list

Here is my inventory.yml file

all: 
  hosts:
    ec2-3-139-239-155.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:
  children:
    webservers:
      hosts:
        ec2-3-139-239-155.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:
    jenkins:
      hosts:
        ec2-3-139-239-155.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:
    production:
      hosts:
        ec2-3-139-239-155.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:

This is the error that I get when I run the above command

WARNING]: Unable to parse /home/vagrant/validation/module7_task0/inventory.yml as an
inventory source
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
{
    "_meta": {
        "hostvars": {}
    },
    "all": {
        "children": [
            "ungrouped"
        ]
    }
}

All the formatting seems correct and I am following the documentation to a T from the ansible site. The yaml format is correct as well. Any insight would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1349

Answers (1)

Vladimir Botka
Vladimir Botka

Reputation: 68034

The inventory file is correct

shell> ansible-inventory -i inventory.yml --list --yaml
all:
  children:
    jenkins:
      hosts:
        ec2-3-139-239-155.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com: {}
    production:
      hosts:
        ec2-3-139-239-155.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com: {}
    ungrouped: {}
    webservers:
      hosts:
        ec2-3-139-239-155.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com: {}

Double-check the path of the file. Review all group_vars and host_vars if any. Test the YAML syntax

shell> yamllint inventory.yml
inventory.yml
  1:1       warning  missing document start "---"  (document-start)

The warning about missing document-start does not cause the problem.

Upvotes: 1

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