troubleshooting

When you try to connect to a host via ssh with password your Ansible Playbook might end up with "you must install the sshpass program" error. Let's investigate together why this error happens and how to solve it!

A Comprehensive Guide to Troubleshooting the “Invalid plugin name: regex.replace” Error in Ansible.

How to solve the error attempting to decrypt but no vault secrets found when using an Ansible Vault to store sensitive password content.

How to solve the error connection failed fatal error when connecting via ssh host localhost port 22 when testing your code on your local machine using ansible_connection local parameter.

Let’s troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error “Failed to import the required Python library (botocore or boto3)” to find the root cause, install the required library using PIP, and successfully run our Ansible For AWS Playbook code.

How to troubleshoot the error “Destination does not exist”, return code 257 enabling PasswordAuthentication for SSH using Ansible lineinfile module.

Let’s troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error “Unable to connect to vCenter or ESXi API [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:897)” to find the root cause, connection problem connecting, and successfully run our Ansible For VMware Playbook code.

Let’s troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error “Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ESXi API, [Errno -2] Name or service not known” to find the root cause, misspelled hostname in your Ansible Playbook, a connection problem connecting eventually using a secure VPN connection and successfully run our Ansible For VMware Playbook code.

Let’s troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error “Failed to import the required Python library (PyVmomi)” to find the root cause, install the required library using PIP, and successfully run our Ansible For VMware Playbook code.

Permission error messages are annoying 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 using the package module.

Unhandled exception errors are nasty 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 using the win_user module.

Root cause analysis when the variable is not misspelled or not defined using the ansible_hostname internal variable and gather_facts boolean.