Learning Ansible and found issue with yum module

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I am running through an Ansible training course on Pluralsight and I am trying to deploy Apache from onto a remote CentOS box using (Ansible controller is also on CentOS).

The command I am using is:

ansible webservers -i inventory -m yum -a “name=httpd state=present” --sudo -ask-sudo-pass

But I get the following error:

ERROR! this task ‘yum’ has extra params, which is only allowed in the following modules: command, shell, script, include, include_vars, add_host, group_by, set_fact, raw, meta

This command works in the training material but not in my test lab so I’m a bit stuck with how to proceed.

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What version of Ansible do you have? You can find that with the --version flag. You may also want to change your use of -sudo to use --become and --ask-become-pass since sudo is deprecated.

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I’m running 2.1.0.0.

Superb. Your suggestion worked perfectly. I didn’t realise --sudo was deprecated.