Introduction
Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about urlopen error.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.
Playbook
The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live Playbook to show you practically the urlopen error and how to solve it!
error code
- urlopen_error.yml
---
- name: uri module Playbook
hosts: all
become: false
vars:
server: "https://reqres.it"
endpoint: "/api/users?page=2"
tasks:
- name: list users
ansible.builtin.uri:
url: "{{ server }}{{ endpoint }}"
method: GET
status_code: 200
timeout: 30
register: result
- name: debug
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: result.json.data
error execution
$ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory troubleshooting/urlopen_error.yml
PLAY [uri module Playbook] *********************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
ok: [demo.example.com]
TASK [list users] **************************************************************
fatal: [demo.example.com]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "elapsed": 15, "msg": "Status code was -1 and not [200]: Request failed: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>", "redirected": false, "status": -1, "url": "https://reqres.it/api/users?page=2"}
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
demo.example.com : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
fix code
- urlopen_fix.yml
---
- name: uri module Playbook
hosts: all
become: false
vars:
server: "https://reqres.in"
endpoint: "/api/users?page=2"
tasks:
- name: list users
ansible.builtin.uri:
url: "{{ server }}{{ endpoint }}"
method: GET
status_code: 200
timeout: 30
register: result
- name: debug
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: result.json.data
fix execution
$ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory troubleshooting/urlopen_fix.yml
PLAY [uri module Playbook] ****************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] ****************************************************************************
ok: [demo.example.com]
TASK [list users] *********************************************************************************
ok: [demo.example.com]
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************
ok: [demo.example.com] => {
"result.json.data": [
{
"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/7-image.jpg",
"email": "[email protected]",
"first_name": "Michael",
"id": 7,
"last_name": "Lawson"
},
{
"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/8-image.jpg",
"email": "[email protected]",
"first_name": "Lindsay",
"id": 8,
"last_name": "Ferguson"
},
{
"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/9-image.jpg",
"email": "[email protected]",
"first_name": "Tobias",
"id": 9,
"last_name": "Funke"
},
{
"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/10-image.jpg",
"email": "[email protected]",
"first_name": "Byron",
"id": 10,
"last_name": "Fields"
},
{
"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/11-image.jpg",
"email": "[email protected]",
"first_name": "George",
"id": 11,
"last_name": "Edwards"
},
{
"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/12-image.jpg",
"email": "[email protected]",
"first_name": "Rachel",
"id": 12,
"last_name": "Howell"
}
]
}
PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************
demo.example.com : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
Conclusion
Now you know better how to troubleshoot the Ansible urlopen error and solve it!
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