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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.

How to Download and use the Ansible Collection community.general re-using Ansible artifacts (tasks, variables, defaults, handlers, modules, and plugins) published in Ansible Galaxy directory.

How to use multi-line YAML variables in Ansible using the "|", Literal Block Scalar, and the ">", Folded Block Scalar, operators. Plus how to elide the new line "\n" at the end of the line and print multi-line with debug module on a terminal.

How to pass or override an Ansible Playbook variable from the command line in plaintext, JSON, or YAML. Very useful to combine some script, automation, or shell variables. Example with fruit variable defined as “banana” and changed to “apple” or “raspberry”.

How to Download and use the Ansible Role lucab85.ansible_role_log4shell to scan our Linux machine against Log4Shell Remote Code Execution Log4j (CVE-2021–44228) re-using Ansible artifacts (tasks, variables, defaults, handlers, modules, and plugins) published in Ansible Galaxy directory.

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