Updating yum repo in RHEL 7 with Ansible
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Refer to https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/yum_repository_module.html
Your code should be
- hosts: all
# define variables.
vars:
epelReleaseMajorVersion: 7
epelReleaseMinorVersion: 8
tasks:
- name: add epel repo
yum_repository:
name: epel_repo
description: EPEL YUM repo
baseurl: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/{{epelReleaseMajorVersion}}/x86_64/
So you misspelled the name of the module. Baseurl was wrong. Variable reference was wrong. And yum_repository
ansible module does not have any parameter called tags
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Sriram over 1 year
I have been trying to write a playbook that adds the EPEL repo to the list of repos available.
The
playbook
I have is:- hosts: all # define variables. vars: epelReleaseMajorVersion: 7 epelReleaseMinorVersion: 8 tasks: - name: add epel repo yum-repository: name: add epel repo description: EPEL YUM repo baseurl: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/$epelReleaseMajorVersion/x86_64/e/epel-release-$epelReleaseMajorVersion-$epelReleaseMinorVersion.noarch.rpm tags: addEpelRepo
I am trying to run this
playbook
like so:
ansible-playbook -v -i "localhost," -c local serverSetup.yml
and get the following error:
ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path. The error appears to have been in '/root/ansible/playbooks/serverSetup.yml': line 21, column 7, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem. The offending line appears to be: tasks: - name: add epel repo ^ here
My questions:
1. Am I using the variables epelReleaseMajorVersion etc. correctly?
2. How do I solve for this error? I have been taking a look at the docs but there do not seem to be many examples.