Solution: Fixing Errors in the Playbook
Understand how to identify and resolve common errors in Ansible playbooks. Learn to correct variable paths, fix indentation and syntax mistakes, and handle missing parameters. This lesson guides you through debugging steps to ensure your playbook runs smoothly and outputs expected results.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
---
- name: Exercise
hosts: all
vars:
myfile: "/proc/mounts"
tasks:
- name: Set file_content
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
file_content: "{{ lookup('file', myfile) }}"
- name: Display the current mounts
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: file_contentCode to read the mounts file
Explanation
For the
read_file.ymlfile:Line 5: In the
read_file.ymlfile, we fix the path to/proc/mountsfor the user-defined variablemyfilein ...