I stumbled upon this error running ansible on Ubuntu 15.10 server, because it ships with Python 3.4.3 and ansible requires Python 2. This is how my provision.yml looks now: – hosts: my_app sudo: yes remote_user: root gather_facts: no pre_tasks: – name: ‘install python2’ raw: sudo apt-get -y install python tasks: – name: ‘ensure user {{ … Read more
I think I got there in the end. The task is like this: – name: Populate genders set_fact: genders: “{{ genders|default({}) | combine( {item.item.name: item.stdout} ) }}” with_items: “{{ people.results }}” It loops through each of the dicts (item) in the people.results array, each time creating a new dict like {Bob: “male”}, and combine()s that … Read more
There is a workaround which may help. You may “register” results for each set_fact iteration and then map that results to list: — – hosts: localhost tasks: – name: set fact set_fact: foo_item=”{{ item }}” with_items: – four – five – six register: foo_result – name: make a list set_fact: foo=”{{ foo_result.results | map(attribute=”ansible_facts.foo_item”) | … Read more
As ant31 already pointed out you can use the synchronize module to this. By default, the module transfers files between the control machine and the current remote host (inventory_host), however that can be changed using the task’s delegate_to parameter (it’s important to note that this is a parameter of the task, not of the module). … Read more
Per Ansible FAQ: Another rule is ‘moustaches don’t stack’. We often see this: {{ somevar_{{other_var}} }} The above DOES NOT WORK, if you need to use a dynamic variable use the hostvars or vars dictionary as appropriate: {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname][‘somevar_’ + other_var] }} So in your case: – debug: msg={{hostvars[inventory_hostname][Component].community_release_num}} Or: – debug: msg={{vars[Component].community_release_num}} Or (since … Read more
I thought I did read somewhere that with_items accepts a bare variable name, but it’s not the case. The program runs as expected using: with_items: “{{ users }}”
–list-hosts lists hosts that match a –limit. The input is the -i, inventory. Your inventory is a file named hosts, which doesn’t exist. You need to create or generate an inventory file from somewhere. Ansible can’t intuit what your inventory is.