Ansible up and running book - first playbook exampe

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Hello,
just learning Ansible with Vagrant and the help of the book “Ansible up and running”.

I cannot execute the first playbook in the book i always had a syntax error.
Ansible version: 1.9.1

Playbook :

  • name: Configure webserver with nginx
    hosts: webservers
    sudo: True
    tasks:
  • name: install nginx
    apt: name=nginx update_cache=yes
  • name: copy nginx config file
    copy: src=files/nginx.conf dest=/etc/nginx/sites-available/default
  • name: enable configuration
    file: >
    dest=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
    src=/etc/nginx/sites-available/default
    state=link
  • name: copy index.html
    template: src=templates/index.html.j2 dest=/usr/share/nginx/html/index.html
    mode=0644
  • name: restart nginx
    service: name=nginx state=restarted

Error:
ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script, web-notls.yml
Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line 3, column 2

  • name: Configure webserver with nginx
    hosts: webservers
    ^

I couldn’t find where the syntax is faulty here, do you have any clues?

Thanks.

2

Hmm, looks like you have incorrect sequence for your playbook.
There are existing sample you can try from:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples
https://gist.github.com/marktheunissen/2979474

3

I think you just need to line up your whitespace correctly. Indentation level is significant in YAML - have a look at the yaml primer http://docs.ansible.com/YAMLSyntax.htmlor use yamlint if you need to check your playbook.

Hope this helps.

Jon