Hi, Total newb here but sometimes the simplest mistakes are the longest to find ;)
Have you tried putting a space between -d and ':' ? Also, try an online yaml checker like yamllint? On Monday, October 6, 2014 8:36:08 PM UTC+2, Peter Palmieri wrote: > > I'm pulling data from EC2 instance metadata (from an IAM instance > profile). The shell commands are: > > curl > http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/PullCredentials > > > creds.txt > access=`cat /home/ubuntu/creds.txt | grep "AccessKeyId" | cut -d':' > -f2 | tr -d ' ' | tr -d '"' | tr -d ','` > > My playbook fragment: > > - name: get IAM role creds > shell: curl > http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/PullCredentials > > > creds.txt > > - name: set env variables > command: access=`cat /home/ubuntu/creds.txt | grep "AccessKeyId" | > cut -d':' -f2 | tr -d ' ' | tr -d '"' | tr -d ','` > > When I run this manually, the creds.txt file is created, and the cat | > grep | cut etc works fine. > > When it runs: > > TASK: [get IAM role creds] > **************************************************** > changed: [****] > > TASK: [set env variables] > ***************************************************** > failed: [****] => {"cmd": "'access=`cat' /home/ubuntu/creds.txt '|' > grep AccessKeyId '|' cut -d: -f2 '|' tr -d ' ' '|' tr -d '\"' '|' tr -d > ',`'", "failed": true, "rc": 2} > msg: [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > If I set everything after command: in quotes, I get a parser error: > > ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script, ansible-qa-ami.yml > Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line 197, column > 82 > > - name: set env variables > command: 'access=`cat /home/ubuntu/creds.txt | grep "AccessKeyId" | > cut -d':' -f2 | tr -d ' ' | tr -d '"' | tr -d ','`' > > ^ > > So I seem to have an issue with colons, quotes, and/or back ticks. Any > suggestions are very welcome. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/ab4f220c-71c7-4583-bcd6-d9b06855f912%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
