block does not support ALL the features of a simple task so this may be
your issue. For example, it may not support notify, but you'll need to look
at this.
On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 10:29:00 AM UTC-5, JiElPe-Fr38 wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am quite new to Ansible and try to "make a tour"...
> I am using ansible 2.4.2.0 with cygwin64 on Win7.
>
>
> I am currently make a personal training and find that I could use a block
> to "enclose" (ok, perhaps wrong term) a couple of task that have some
> common "properties" (like become_user: root ...).
> The idea is to change this :
>
> ---
> - name: Update Red Hat machine
> yum:
> update_cache: yes
> name: '*'
> state: latest
> when: ansible_pkg_mgr == 'yum'
> become: true
> become_user: root
> ignore_errors: yes
> notify: "restart {{ ansible_os_family }} host"
>
> - name: Install RedHat tools
> yum:
> name: "{{ item }}"
> state: present
> with_items: "{{ toolList }}"
> when: ansible_pkg_mgr == 'yum'
> become: true
> become_user: root
> ignore_errors: yes
> notify: "restart {{ ansible_os_family }} host"
>
>
>
> into a block based syntax so that I can factorize the become / notify and
> when statement.
> II have made several trials without any success.
> Playing the file below :
> ---
> -block:
> - name: Update Red Hat machine
> yum:
> update_cache: yes
> name: '*'
> state: latest
>
> - name: Install RedHat tools
> yum:
> name: "{{ item }}"
> state: present
> with_items: "{{ toolList }}"
>
> when: ansible_pkg_mgr == 'yum'
> become: true
> become_user: root
> ignore_errors: yes
> notify: "restart {{ ansible_os_family }} host"
>
> I get this error :
> fatal: [ci-server]: FAILED! => {"reason": "Syntax Error while loading
> YAML.\n\n\nThe error appears to have been in
> '/home/jeanlupi/centos_test/myKnowledge/devOps/playbook/roles/devTools/tasks/RedHat.yml':
>
> line 16, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact
> syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n when:
> ansible_pkg_mgr == 'yum'\n ^ here\n\nexception type: <class
> 'yaml.parser.ParserError'>\nexception: while parsing a block collection\n
> in \"<unicode string>\", line 3, column 3:\n - name: Update Red Hat
> machine\n ^\nexpected <block end>, but found '?'\n in \"<unicode
> string>\", line 16, column 3:\n when: ansible_pkg_mgr == 'yum'\n
> ^"}
>
>
>
> If someone could help I would be very glad !
>
> Thanks !
> JiElPe
>
>
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