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Ansible 'urlopen error' Fix: SSL, Proxy & Network Connection Issues — Video Tutorial
Fix Ansible urlopen error for SSL certificate failures, proxy issues, DNS resolution, and network timeouts.
What You'll Learn
- Introduction
- Playbook
- error code
- error execution
- fix code
- fix execution
- Conclusion
- Common urlopen Errors
- Connection refused
- SSL certificate verify failed
Full Tutorial Content
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
```yaml
---
- 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
```bash
$ 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: ", "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
```yaml
---
- 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
```bash
$ 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": "michael.lawson@reqres.in",
"first_name": "Michael",
"id": 7,
"last_name": "Lawson"
},
{
"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/8-image.jpg",
About This Tutorial
- Author: Luca Berton
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Read time: 6 min
- Category: installation
Read the full written article: Ansible 'urlopen error' Fix: SSL, Proxy & Network Connection Issues
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