"Correct" way to install EPEL rpms?

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TASK: [common | yum install epel packages] ************************************

failed: [ceph-osd1] => {“changed”: true, “item”: “”, “rc”: 1, “results”: [“Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security\nDetermining fastest mirrors\nCould not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os error was\n14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn’t resolve host ‘mirrorlist.centos.org’"\n”]}

msg: Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

I am running my playbook toward the vagrant vms on my laptop, so maybe my home network (bandwidth) caused the problem? I guess this is because I pointed to one URL and somehow it timed out (I have not clue).

Is there anyway to make this task more robust? Can yum module put a list of repos instead of pointing to a hardcoded URL?

---------------Related tasks in my playbook------------

  • name: yum install epel packages

yum: name=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm state=present

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It says it could’t resolve mirrorlist.centos.org, so you have a DNS problem – at least a DNS problem. Because this is CentOS, I’d verify that the primary public interface (probably eth0) is enabled at boot and out from under network-manager control, particularly if you’re running it as a server and not a desktop.

I’d diagnose the networking issue, and then write a play/role that goes over the steps to resolving the issue, such that you can reuse the play/role again and again on CentOS VMs at build time.

As an example, you could use the URI module to verify a connection to mirrorlist.centos.org before proceeding.

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Id recomment using goozbach.EPEL role -
https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/35

it puts the needed repo files in place with no need to download anything.