FATAL template error while templating string — Ansible troubleshooting

How to reproduce, troubleshoot, and fix the “FATAL template error while templating string” Ansible runtime error.

Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting and specifically about the “FATAL template error while templating string” error.

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 FATAL template error while templating string” error and how to solve it!

• template_error_string_error.yml

---
- name: file module demo
  hosts: all
  vars:
    myfile: "{{ ~/example.txt }}"
  tasks:
    - name: Creating an empty file
      ansible.builtin.file:
        path: "{{ myfile }}"
        state: touch

output

$ ansible-playbook -i demo/inventory troubleshooting/template_error_string_error.yml
PLAY [file module demo]…