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Solution: Fixing Errors in the Playbook

Solution: Fixing Errors in the Playbook

Look at the solution to the previous exercise.

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---
- 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_content
Code to read the mounts file

Explanation

  • For the read_file.yml file:

    • Line 5: In the read_file.yml file, we fix the path to  /proc/mounts for the user-defined variable myfile  in ...