# ERROR! 'with\_indexed\_items' is not a valid attribute for a Play **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [November 28, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-with-indexed-items-is-not-a-valid-attribute-for-a-play/26159 "2017-11-28T21:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markus\_Iser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Markus\_Iser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Markus_Iser)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-with-indexed-items-is-not-a-valid-attribute-for-a-play/26159/1 "2017-11-28T21:20:23Z")
Hello, I just gave myself a crashcourse in Ansible in order to setup a cluster at my university. As I was eager to just do anything with Ansible I running through a rather complicated bootstrapping. Now that I’m testing the final result, the bootstrapping is just broken. It seems like the hosts file (that I store just next to my playbooks) is not recognized (I think this can be fixed by putting it somewhere global), but what really is a greater problem ist, that it seems that ‘with\_indexed\_items’ does not work as expected. Am I just using it wrong? ansible --version ansible 2.4.1.0 ansible-playbook main.yml [WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: all [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available ERROR! ‘with\_indexed\_items’ is not a valid attribute for a Play The error appears to have been in ‘/amd.home/home/i12/iser/git/acamar/ansible/phase-0.yml’: line 2, column 3, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem. The offending line appears to be: ---
**Author:** ![Markus\_Iser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Markus\_Iser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Markus_Iser)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-with-indexed-items-is-not-a-valid-attribute-for-a-play/26159/2 "2017-11-28T22:24:34Z")
Okay I got it, sorry for the spam, seems that I confused the hierarchy of playbooks and roles in phase-0.yml. Playbooks my only contain tasks after the keyword “task:”, not so for roles, however…