Thank you that worked On Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 8:06:52 AM UTC-5, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > > On Oct 19, 2017 5:50 AM, "Julian Brown" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > - 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 > --- > - hosts: all > remote_user: root > > tasks: > - name: deploy bin git repo > git: > repo: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [ removed for privacy reasons ] > dest: /root/bin > version: master > > > So I am trying to follow playbooks and use them. > > /etc/ansible/hosts > > [all] > testing.tld > > Julians-Macbook-Pro:deploy_with_ansible julianbrown$ ansible --version > ansible 2.4.0.0 > config file = > /Users/julianbrown/ansible_deploy/deploy_with_ansible/ansible.cfg > configured module search path = > [u'/Users/julianbrown/.ansible/plugins/modules', > u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] > ansible python module location = /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/ > 2.4.0.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible > executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible > python version = 2.7.14 (default, Sep 25 2017, 09:53:22) [GCC 4.2.1 > Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.37)] > > I get a syntax error, yet that is exactly the structure of most playbooks > I have seen. > > Julians-Macbook-Pro:deploy_with_ansible julianbrown$ ansible-playbook > deploy_julian_bin.yml > ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML. > > > The error appears to have been in > '/Users/julianbrown/ansible_deploy/deploy_with_ansible/deploy_julian_bin.yml': > > line 3, column 1, but may > be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem. > > The offending line appears to be: > > - hosts: all > remote_user: root > ^ here > > exception type: <class 'yaml.parser.ParserError'> > exception: while parsing a block collection > in "<unicode string>", line 2, column 1 > did not find expected '-' indicator > in "<unicode string>", line 3, column 1 > > > What am I doing wrong? > > Indentation :-) > > Add two spaces in front of the remote_user to get past this particular > problem. > > -toshio > > > Thanx > > Julian > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/28f82479-2eee-4461-a9d2-f9a54fe225eb%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/28f82479-2eee-4461-a9d2-f9a54fe225eb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > >
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