Ansible troubleshooting — Syntax Error

Let’s troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error “Syntax Error while loading YAML” to find the offending lines in our playbook code, the root cause, fix a missing quote, and verify the resolution is working.

Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting and specifically about Syntax 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 syntax error and how to solve it!

• report.txt

test report.txt

• syntax_error.yml

---
- name: win_copy module demo
  hosts: all
  become: false
  gather_facts: false
  vars:
    source: "report.txt"
    destination: "Desktop/report.txt"
  tasks:
    - name: copy report.txt
      ansible.windows.win_copy:
        src: "{{ source }}"
        dest: "{{ destination }}

output:

$ ansible-playbook -i win/inventory troubleshooting/syntax_error.yml