PowerShell incompatible with the sudo become plugin — Ansible troubleshooting

How to reproduce, troubleshoot, and fix the “The PowerShell shell family is incompatible with the sudo become plugin” Ansible runtime error.

Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting and specifically about “the PowerShell shell family is incompatible with the sudo become plugin” 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 PowerShell shell family is incompatible with the sudo become plugin” error and how to solve it!

• incompatiblesudo_error.yml

---
- name: win_reboot module demo
  hosts: all
  become: true
  tasks:
    - name: reboot host(s)
      ansible.windows.win_reboot:

output

$ ansible-playbook -i win/inventory troubleshooting/incompatiblesudo_error.yml
PLAY [win_reboot module demo] *********************************************************************