Privilege escalation errors — Ansible troubleshooting

Privilege escalation errors are one of the most common Ansible problems. In a live demo, we are going to troubleshoot starting from the error message. We are going to investigate the root cause of the problem and fix it.

Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting and specifically about privilege escalation errors.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

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

error

---
- name: yum module demo
  hosts: all
  become: false
  tasks:
    - name: install package
      yum:
        name: git
        state: present

fix