playbook syntax

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I’m giving ansible a try, and it seems the examples aren’t quite right - using authorized_keys as a starting point:

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/authorized_key_module.html

cat e.yml

  • name: Set authorized key took from file
    authorized_key:
    user: charlie
    state: present
    key: “{{ lookup(‘file’, ‘/home/charlie/.ssh/id_rsa.pub’) }}”

ansible-playbook e.yml

ERROR! ‘authorized_key’ is not a valid attribute for a Play

The error appears to have been in ‘/etc/ansible/e.yml’: line 1, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

  • name: Set authorized key took from file
    ^ here

I use a yaml syntax validator, which didn’t like the comment after name: but removing that doesn’t change anything.

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You have not created a playbook, effectively you have only created a tasks file. A playbook will have a hosts declaration, and all tasks will be under a tasks section.

See http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_intro.html#playbook-language-example for more information.

3

PS: Alan Batie of Agora fame?

4

It’s still not happy with it:

ansible-playbook e.yml --list-hosts

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

The error appears to have been in ‘/etc/ansible/e.yml’: line 5, column 1, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

authorized_key:
user: charlie
^ here

cat e.yml

  • hosts: all
    tasks:
  • name: Make sure admin03 root ssh key is present
    authorized_key:
    user: charlie
    state: present
    key: “{{ lookup(‘file’, ‘/home/charlie/.ssh/id_rsa.pub’) }}”
5

A direct copy paste from your email works without problems for me:

$ ansible-playbook e.yml --list-hosts --list-tasks

playbook: e.yml

play #1 (all): all TAGS:
pattern: [u’all’]
hosts (1):
localhost
tasks:
Make sure admin03 root ssh key is present TAGS:

I’m not sure if maybe you have tabs, or mixed indentation that didn’t translate via email? Generally speaking, make sure you only uses spaces in YAML.

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Tabs were it, arrgh. Thanks!