James pointed out the mistakes in the json and now it works.
I am able to use json as valid format for playboks.
On Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 7:18:22 PM UTC-4, Michael M wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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