I use ansible-module-vcloud, and I want to create VMs via Ansible. For example, I want to create easiest playbook.
I have this code:
---
- name: vCloudDirectorAnsible
hosts: localhost
environment:
env_user: admin
env_password: admin
env_host: vcloud.vmware.ru
env_org: test
env_api_version: 30.0
env_verify_ssl_certs: false
- name: create catalog
vcd_catalog:
catalog_name: "test"
catalog_description: "test_Descr"
state: "present"
But I got error:
ERROR! 'vcd_catalog' is not a valid attribute for a Play
The error appears to have been in '/root/ansible-module-vcloud-director/main.yml': line 14, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
- name: create catalog
^ here
If I delete this part:
- name: create catalog
vcd_catalog:
catalog_name: "test"
catalog_description: "test_Descr"
state: "present"
My playbook will run and successfully completed.
How to fix this?
You missed the tasks keyword.
---
- name: vCloudDirectorAnsible
hosts: localhost
environment:
env_user: admin
env_password: admin
env_host: vcloud.vmware.ru
env_org: test
env_api_version: 30.0
env_verify_ssl_certs: false
tasks:
- name: create catalog
vcd_catalog:
catalog_name: "test"
catalog_description: "test_Descr"
state: "present"
Related
I have set up the airflow in Azure Cloud (Azure Container Apps) and attached an Azure File Share as an external mount/volume
1. I ran **airflow init service**, it had created the airflow.cfg and `'webserver_config.py'` file in the **AIRFLOW_HOME (/opt/airflow)**, which is actually an azure mounted file system
2. I ran **airflow webserver service**, it had created the `airflow-webserver.pid` file in the **AIRFLOW_HOME (/opt/airflow)**, which is actually an azure mounted file system
Now the problem is all the files created above are created with root user&groups, not as airflow user(50000),
I have also set the env variable AIRFLOW_UID to 50000 during the creation of the container app. due to this my webservers are not starting, throwing the below error
PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/opt/airflow/airflow-webserver.pid'
Note: Azure Containers Apps does not allow use root/sudo commands, otherwise I could solve this problem with simple chown commands
Another problem is the airflow configurations passed through environment variables are never picked up by Docker, eg
- name: AIRFLOW__API__AUTH_BACKENDS
value: 'airflow.api.auth.backend.basic_auth'
Attached screenshot for reference
Your help is much appreciated!
YAML file that I use to create my container app:
id: /subscriptions/1234/resourceGroups/<my-res-group>/providers/Microsoft.App/containerApps/<app-name>
identity:
type: None
location: eastus2
name: webservice
properties:
configuration:
activeRevisionsMode: Single
registries: []
managedEnvironmentId: /subscriptions/1234/resourceGroups/<my-res-group>/providers/Microsoft.App/managedEnvironments/container-app-env
template:
containers:
- command:
- /bin/bash
- -c
- exec /entrypoint airflow webserver
env:
- name: AIRFLOW__API__AUTH_BACKENDS
value: 'airflow.api.auth.backend.basic_auth'
- name: AIRFLOW__CELERY__BROKER_URL
value: redis://:#myredis.redis.cache.windows.net:6379/0
- name: AIRFLOW__CELERY__RESULT_BACKEND
value: db+postgresql://user:pass#postres-db-servconn.postgres.database.azure.com/airflow?sslmode=require
- name: AIRFLOW__CORE__DAGS_ARE_PAUSED_AT_CREATION
value: 'true'
- name: AIRFLOW__CORE__EXECUTOR
value: CeleryExecutor
- name: AIRFLOW__CORE__SQL_ALCHEMY_CONN
value: postgresql+psycopg2://user:pass#postres-db-servconn.postgres.database.azure.com/airflow?sslmode=require
- name: AIRFLOW__DATABASE__SQL_ALCHEMY_CONN
value: postgresql+psycopg2://user:pass#postres-db-servconn.postgres.database.azure.com/airflow?sslmode=require
- name: AIRFLOW__CORE__LOAD_EXAMPLES
value: 'false'
- name: AIRFLOW_UID
value: 50000
image: docker.io/apache/airflow:latest
name: wsr
volumeMounts:
- volumeName: randaf-azure-files-volume
mountPath: /opt/airflow
probes: []
resources:
cpu: 0.25
memory: 0.5Gi
scale:
maxReplicas: 3
minReplicas: 1
volumes:
- name: randaf-azure-files-volume
storageName: randafstorage
storageType: AzureFile
resourceGroup: RAND
tags:
tagname: ws-only
type: Microsoft.App/containerApps
Can someone help me in finding the best way to declare all variables inside a file and define the file path in ansible playbook? Here's my ansible-playbook
---
- hosts: myhost
vars:
- var: /root/dir.txt
tasks:
- name: print variables
debug:
msg: "username: {{ username }}, password: {{ password }}"
These are the contents inside dir.txt
username=test1
password=mypassword
When I run this, I am facing an error
TASK [print variables] *********************************************************************************************************
fatal: [121.0.0.7]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'username' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to be in '/root/test.yml': line 6, column 7, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n tasks:\n - name: print variables\n ^ here\n"}
Expected output is to print the variables by this method
Any help would be appreciated
There are two reasons why your code won't work.
A variables file should be in YAML or JSON format for Ansible to load it
Such variables files are loaded with vars_files directive or include_vars task, rather than vars
So a YAML file named /root/dir.yml:
username: test1
password: mypassword
Can be used in a playbook like:
---
- hosts: myhost
vars_files:
- /root/dir.yml
tasks:
- name: print variables
debug:
msg: "username: {{ username }}, password: {{ password }}"
test_env_template.yml
variables:
- name: DB_HOSTNAME
value: 10.123.56.222
- name: DB_PORTNUMBER
value: 1521
- name: USERNAME
value: TEST
- name: PASSWORD
value: TEST
- name: SCHEMANAME
value: SCHEMA
- name: ACTIVEMQNAME
value: 10.123.56.223
- name: ACTIVEMQPORT
value: 8161
and many more variables in the list.
I wanted to iterate through all the variables in the test_env_template.yml using a loop to replace the values in a file, Is there a way to do that rather than calling each values separately like ${{ variables.ACTIVEMQNAME}} as the no. of variables in the template is dynamic.
In short no. There is no easy way to get your azure pipeline variables specific to tamplet variable. You can get env variables, but there you will get regular env variables and pipeline variables mapped to env variables.
You can get it via env | sort but I'm pretty sure that this is not waht you want.
You can't display variables specific to template but you can get all pipeline variables in this way:
steps:
- pwsh:
Write-Host "${{ convertToJson(variables) }}"
and then you will get
{
system: build,
system.hosttype: build,
system.servertype: Hosted,
system.culture: en-US,
system.collectionId: be1a2b52-5ed1-4713-8508-ed226307f634,
system.collectionUri: https://dev.azure.com/thecodemanual/,
system.teamFoundationCollectionUri: https://dev.azure.com/thecodemanual/,
system.taskDefinitionsUri: https://dev.azure.com/thecodemanual/,
system.pipelineStartTime: 2021-09-21 08:06:07+00:00,
system.teamProject: DevOps Manual,
system.teamProjectId: 4fa6b279-3db9-4cb0-aab8-e06c2ad550b2,
system.definitionId: 275,
build.definitionName: kmadof.devops-manual 123 ,
build.definitionVersion: 1,
build.queuedBy: Krzysztof Madej,
build.queuedById: daec281a-9c41-4c66-91b0-8146285ccdcb,
build.requestedFor: Krzysztof Madej,
build.requestedForId: daec281a-9c41-4c66-91b0-8146285ccdcb,
build.requestedForEmail: krzysztof.madej#hotmail.com,
build.sourceVersion: 583a276cd9a0f5bf664b4b128f6ad45de1592b14,
build.sourceBranch: refs/heads/master,
build.sourceBranchName: master,
build.reason: Manual,
system.pullRequest.isFork: False,
system.jobParallelismTag: Public,
system.enableAccessToken: SecretVariable,
DB_HOSTNAME: 10.123.56.222,
DB_PORTNUMBER: 1521,
USERNAME: TEST,
PASSWORD: TEST,
SCHEMANAME: SCHEMA,
ACTIVEMQNAME: 10.123.56.223,
ACTIVEMQPORT: 8161
}
If you prefix them then you can try to filter using jq.
I got below error while running my playbook (below)
fatal: [192.168.22.200]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: float object has no element 55\n\nThe error appears to be in '/home/subbu/Downloads/lab/test-02.yml': line 14, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - name: Export configuration\n ^ here\n"}
test-02.yml:
---
- name: Running config
hosts: ALL
connection: local
collections:
- paloaltonetworks.panos
tasks:
- name: Load Variables
include_vars: vars.yml
- name: Export configuration
panos_export:
provider: '{{ provider }}'
category: 'configuration'
filename: 'running-config.xml'
Here is my vars file used in above playbook
vars.yml:
provider:
ip_address: "{{ 192.168.22.200 }}"
username: 'admin'
password: 'seeyousoon'
In your vars.yml, try removing the curly brackets and using single quotes for ip_address.
i.e. ip_address: '192.168.22.200'
I wrote a python script which gets executed via my ansible playbook and returns the following output via stdout:
- { username: ansible, admin: yes}
- { username: test, admin: no }
The output then should get saved in the variable "users" and with the "with_items" (or the newer "loop" conditional) I want to iterate through the variable in order to assign the right permissions for each user separately:
- name: execute python script
command: "python3 /tmp/parse_string.py --user_permissions={{ user_permissions }}"
register: output
- name: register
set_fact:
users: "{{ output.stdout }}"
- name: output
debug: msg="{{ users }}"
- name: Add user to group -admin
user:
name={{ item.username }}
groups=admin
append=yes
state=present
when: "item.admin == yes"
with_items: '{{users}}
However when launching the playbook it says that the variable "users" has no attribute "username".
TASK [create_users : output] ***************************************************
ok: [ansible] => {
"msg": "- { username: ansible, admin: yes }\n- { username: test, admin: no }\n- { username: test2, admin: no }"
}
TASK [create_users : Add user to group -admin ***************
fatal: [ansible]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'ansible.utils.unsafe_proxy.AnsibleUnsafeText object' has no attribute 'username'\n\nThe error appears to be in '***': line 29, 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: \n ^ here\n"}
Can anyone help me with this case?
BR
You are setting your users var to a string. It happens that this string is a yaml representation of a datastructure but ansible has no clue about that at this point.
To achieve your requirement, you need to parse that string as yaml and register the result. Luckily, there is a from_yaml filter for that purpose
You just have to modify your set_fact task as the following and everything should work as expected:
- name: register
set_fact:
users: "{{ output.stdout | from_yaml }}"