# I cannot get out of the gates with Ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/i-cannot-get-out-of-the-gates-with-ansible/25778>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 19, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/i-cannot-get-out-of-the-gates-with-ansible/25778 "2017-10-19T12:50:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Julian\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Julian\_Brown](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Julian_Brown)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/i-cannot-get-out-of-the-gates-with-ansible/25778/1 "2017-10-19T12:50:40Z")

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- I cannot get any playbook to work
- I am trying to use Ansible to configure cloud VM’s for me.- Macbook Pro is my central system

Here is my first playbook:

Julians-Macbook-Pro:deploy\_with\_ansible julianbrown$ cat deploy\_julian\_bin.yml

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**Author:** ![tkuratom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@tkuratom](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tkuratom)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/i-cannot-get-out-of-the-gates-with-ansible/25778/2 "2017-10-19T13:06:36Z")

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Indentation 🙂

Add two spaces in front of the remote\_user to get past this particular problem.

-toshio

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/i-cannot-get-out-of-the-gates-with-ansible/25778/3 "2017-10-19T13:47:05Z")

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Ansible uses YAML as the playbook format, which means  
spaces/indentation is significant, make sure your playbook looks like  
this:

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**Author:** ![Julian\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Julian\_Brown](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Julian_Brown)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/i-cannot-get-out-of-the-gates-with-ansible/25778/4 "2017-10-19T14:21:53Z")

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Thank you that worked