I am running some issues when I execute this playbook:
- hosts: all
connection: local
tasks:
- template: src=/etc/ansible/{{group_names}}/common.j2 dest=/etc/ansible/configs/{{inventory_hostname}}.txt
name: create common config snippets
the error that I am getting is:
fatal: [R1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "Unable to find '/etc/ansible/[u'ios']/common.j2' in expected paths."}
fatal: [R2]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "Unable to find '/etc/ansible/[u'ios1']/common.j2' in expected paths."}
and here are my groups:
/etc/ansible# cat hosts | grep ios
[ios]
[ios1]
and here are my common.j2
files:
/etc/ansible# ls ios1/
common.j2
/etc/ansible# ls ios/
common.j2
Could someone elaborate why the group_names
returns [u'group_names]
please?
Because group_names
a list (that's why it is surrounded by [ ]
) -- a host can belong to multiple groups.
You need to decide, what is your objective:
If you wanted to include files for all groups, you have to add a loop:
- hosts: all
connection: local
tasks:
- name: create common config snippets
template:
src: /etc/ansible/{{item}}/common.j2
dest: /etc/ansible/configs/{{inventory_hostname}}.txt
with_items: "{{group_names}}"
If you wanted to add a single group, you could refer to a single element (group_names[0]
), but that doesn't seem practical...