(oops, sorry, accidentally replied privately rather than to the
group...seriously noobing it up today...)
Hmm...I fixed that, but still getting the same syntax error: "ERROR:
assert is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler"
tasks:
- assert:
that:
- commonWeekday.stdout == "Saturday"
- ansible_date_time.hour == "10"
- commonResultBackup!success
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote:
> You need to indent your 'that' key further:
>
> tasks:
>
> - assert:
>
> that:
>
> - commonWeekday.stdout == "Saturday"
>
> - ansible_date_time.hour == "10"
>
> - commonResultBackup!success
> --
> Matt Martz
> [email protected]
>
> On April 23, 2014 at 11:54:34 AM, Michael Sphar ([email protected])
> wrote:
>
> I'm still pretty new to ansible, so I feel like I am probably doing
> something really stupid, but I cannot get the assert module to work.
>
> I have ansible version 1.5.3. I'm getting "ERROR: assert is not a legal
> parameter in an Ansible task or handler" in all my attempts to use an
> assert. I've been searching the docs and all I can find is the doc which
> gives a snippet example of using assert and my attempts to copy that aren't
> working, and I can't find an actual complete playbook example that includes
> the use of assert to compare to.
>
> What I'm trying to do, assert may not even be the right approach for.
> Basically I'm developing a playbook for automated reboots that is *very*
> dangerous during production hours and which should only ever be allowed to
> run on a Saturday during a designated window, and so I want the playbook to
> include some explicit rules that will prevent it from rebooting when it's
> not supposed to, even if some chucklehead accidentally executes it during
> the week.
>
> Ideally, I'd be able just reference an ansible fact for the day of the
> week, but I can't seem to find one? So I'm using the date command to get
> the day of the week and registering that into a variable. Then I want to
> abort the playbook when that and another condition are not met.
>
> My test playbook looks like this (the tasks that set commonWeekday and
> commonResultBackup are in roles/common/tasks/main.yml):
>
> REBOOTGROUP_SAT_10AM.yml:
>
> ---
>
> - hosts: REBOOTGROUP_SAT_10AM
>
> roles:
>
> - common
>
>
> tasks:
>
> - assert:
>
> that:
>
> - commonWeekday.stdout == "Saturday"
>
> - ansible_date_time.hour == "10"
>
> - commonResultBackup!success
>
>
> - name: Reboot the server with warning delay - Don't wait for it to
> complete
>
> command: shutdown -r +5 Automated Weekly Reboot
>
> sudo: yes
>
> async: 600
>
> poll: 0
>
> ignore_errors: true
>
>
> And if I test it:
>
>
> $ ansible-playbook --syntax-check REBOOTGROUP_SAT_10AM.yml
>
> playbook: REBOOTGROUP_SAT_10AM.yml
>
> ERROR: assert is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler
>
>
>
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