# How to a activate ONOS apps by ansible-playbook?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-a-activate-onos-apps-by-ansible-playbook/32049>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 24, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-a-activate-onos-apps-by-ansible-playbook/32049 "2020-01-24T16:51:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ivy\_Min](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Ivy\_Min](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ivy_Min)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-a-activate-onos-apps-by-ansible-playbook/32049/1 "2020-01-24T16:51:37Z")

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My ansible-playbook version is latest. I try to activate ONOS service in docker container by running ansible-playbook. I tried some ways. However they all failed.

```auto
---
- hosts: local
  tasks:
  - name: Create a onos-a container
    docker_container:
      name: onos-a
      image: onosproject/onos 
      restart: yes
      ports: 8190:8190 

  - name: Activate onos-a fwd apps #failed by shell
    shell: "docker exec -it onos-a bash -c '/root/onos/apache-karaf-4.2.6/bin/client app activate org.onosproject.openflow'"
    become: yes
  - name: Activate onos-a apps #fialed by commands
    docker_container:
       name: onos-a
       command: export ONOS_APPS=fwd
       command: export ONOS_APPS=openflow

```

Need some help ~

when I running shell command, the error shows

```auto
   "changed": true, 
    "cmd": "sudo docker exec -it onos_b bash -c '/root/onos/apache-karaf-4.2.6/bin/client app activate org.onosproject.openflow'", 
    "delta": "0:00:03.291473", 
    "end": "2020-01-23 20:00:33.229114", 
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "_raw_params": "sudo docker exec -it onos_b bash -c '/root/onos/apache-karaf-4.2.6/bin/client app activate org.onosproject.openflow'", 
            "_uses_shell": true, 
            "argv": null, 
            "chdir": null, 
            "creates": null, 
            "executable": null, 
            "removes": null, 
            "stdin": null, 
            "stdin_add_newline": true, 
            "strip_empty_ends": true, 
            "warn": true
        }
    }, 
    "msg": "non-zero return code", 
    "rc": 1, 
    "start": "2020-01-23 20:00:29.937641", 
    "stderr": "", 
    "stderr_lines": [], 
    "stdout": "Logging in as karaf\r\nFailed to get the session.", 
    "stdout_lines": [
        "Logging in as karaf", 
        "Failed to get the session."
    ]
}

```

When I ssh to the sever running commands, shows

```auto
onos-b:~$ sudo docker exec -it onos_b bash -c '/root/onos/apache-karaf-4.2.6/bin/client app activate org.onosproject.fwd'
Logging in as karaf
Activated org.onosproject.fwd

```