Ansible troubleshooting — missing module parameter

How to reproduce the `missing module parameter` error of the Ansible module file, troubleshooting, and fix to be able to successfully create a symlink in Linux.

Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about Invalid argument errors.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

demo

The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live demo to show you practically the missing module parameter and how to solve it!

• invalidargument_error.yml

---
- name: file module demo
  hosts: all
  vars:
    mylink: "~/example"
    mysrc: "/proc/cpuinfo"
  tasks:
    - name: Creating a symlink
      ansible.builtin.file:
        path: "{{ mylink }}"
        dest: "{{ mysrc }}"
        state: link

execution

$ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory troubleshooting/invalidargument_error.yml
PLAY [file module demo] ********************************************************