Playbooks must be in yaml. Inventories can be in json (at least dynamic
inventories require it), but not the playbooks themselves.
On 6/26/19 3:08 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
Hello Folkds:
Thank you in advance for your time and attention.
I wrote a playbook in the json format.
[
{
"name": "Test the json mode"
"hosts": "cool_columbus",
"tasks": [
{
"name": "First task"
"shell": {
"chdir": "/tmp",
"free_form": "ls -l",
}
}
]
}
]
when I run it with the command
ansible-playbook test_playbook.json
ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
expected ',' or '}', but got '<scalar>'
The error appears to have been in
'/home/pidansible/test_playbook.json': line 4, column 5, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
What am I doing wrong and how to run this ?
Please help.
-N
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