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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.

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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",

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