I am a newbie in Ansible. I was trying to use expect with Ansible to automate package installation (in below example - uninstall). During lynx package uninstall manually, I get following prompt. In expect response field - I was trying to match this pattern (both lines) but my script fails. Though it works for one line - Is this ok [y/N]: y. Regex that I have used for both lines is Installed size: 5.4 M\nIs this ok [y/N]: y
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Installed size: 5.4 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
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Code 1 (pattern match for both lines - failure):
[ansible@localhost ansible]$ cat main.yml
---
- hosts: localhost
remote_user: ansible
become: yes
become_method: sudo
connection: ssh
gather_facts: yes
tasks:
- name: remove a package
expect:
command: yum remove lynx
responses:
Installed size: 5.4 M\nIs this ok \[y\/N\]: y
#Is this ok \[y\/N\]: y
echo: yes
Output:
[ansible@localhost ansible]$ ansible-playbook main.yml
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: DEFAULT_SUDO_USER option, In favor of become which is a generic framework . This feature will be removed in version 2.8. Deprecation
warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
The error appears to have been in '/etc/ansible/main.yml': line 13, column 51, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
responses:
Installed size: 5.4 M\nIs this ok \[y\/N\]: y
^ here
exception type: <class 'yaml.scanner.ScannerError'>
exception: mapping values are not allowed in this context
in "<unicode string>", line 13, column 51
[ansible@localhost ansible]$
======================================================================= Code 2 (pattern match for one line - works fine):
[ansible@localhost ansible]$ cat main.yml
---
- hosts: localhost
remote_user: ansible
become: yes
become_method: sudo
connection: ssh
gather_facts: yes
tasks:
- name: remove a package
expect:
command: yum remove lynx
responses:
#Installed size: 5.4 M\nIs this ok \[y\/N\]: y
Is this ok \[y\/N\]: y
echo: yes
Output
[ansible@localhost ansible]$
[ansible@localhost ansible]$ ansible-playbook main.yml
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: DEFAULT_SUDO_USER option, In favor of become which is a generic framework . This feature will be removed in version 2.8. Deprecation
warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
PLAY [localhost] *********************************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] ***************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [127.0.0.1]
TASK [remove a package] **************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [127.0.0.1]
PLAY RECAP ***************************************************************************************************************************************************
127.0.0.1 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
yum remove lynx -y
package
or (deprecated)yum
.yum
module is deprecated?package
encompasses all supported package managers. You can still useyum
if you wish, for the time being, but it will probably go away eventually. It has some performance improvements in 2.5 and after that the other ones (yum, apt, etc) will likely get deprecated.