Just for curiosity, why are you using json instead of yaml?
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 11:33 PM Narahari 'n' Savitha <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> -N
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