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Ansible playbook error: mapping values are not allowed in this context

Posted August 7, 2019 52.5k views
AnsibleUbuntu 18.04

I am trying to play with Ansible a little bit and I’ve created a test playbook but it is failing for some reason and I can’t figure out why. I’ve tested the connectivity between my control node and the worker node but when I try to run my playbook I get this error:

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
  mapping values are not allowed in this context

The error appears to have been in '/root/ansible/setup.yaml': line 9, column 12, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

- name: Apache started
    service:
           ^ here

I can not see anything wrong with the service part in my playbook. Here’s what I currently have:

---
- hosts: webservers
  vars:
    my_service: apache2
    desired_state: started

  tasks:
- name: Apache started
    service:
      name:  "{{ my_service }}"
      state: "{{ desired_state }}"

Has anyone seen this error before?

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bobbyiliev August 7, 2019

Hello,

The playbook looks good, there’s only a slight indentation error, Yaml is very strict about the indentations and the spacing.

You need to make sure that you have two spaces before the - name part of your playbook. So it would look something like this:

---
- hosts: webservers
  vars:
    my_service: apache2
    desired_state: started

  tasks:
  - name: Apache started
    service:
      name:  "{{ my_service }}"
      state: "{{ desired_state }}"

Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Bobby

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saikumartrainings December 21, 2019

I am getting error with the below yaml file.please help

vi nginx-install.yml

  • name: This is my first Ansible playbook to install nginx hosts: all become: true

tasks:
-name: install nginx
yum:
name: nginx
state: latest

service:
name: nginx
state: started

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  • bobbyiliev December 21, 2019

    Hello,

    You need to adjust this a little bit to:

    ---
- hosts: webservers
  become: yes
  tasks:
  - name: Install Nginx Latest
    yum:
      name: nginx
      state: latest
  - name: Start Nginx
    service:
      name: nginx
      state: started

    This should work.

    If you get any errors, feel free to share them here.

    Regards,
    Bobby

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mcales7759 July 31, 2020

Hello, I need help. I am also getting this issue:

error: error parsing /Users/m_calestino/Desktop/getambass.yml: error converting YAML to JSON: yaml: line 3: mapping values are not allowed in this context

when I put in:

apiVersion: getambassador.io/v0
kind:Host
metadata:
name: minimal-host
spec:
hostname: host.example.com
acmeProvider: some-ambassador
requestPolicy:
insecure:
action: Redirect
additionalPort: 8080

Here is the actual issue and the link below:

ISSUE:
When I go /ambassador/v0/diag/ in 1.4.2 I see a ton of

NOTICE: -global-: A future Ambassador version will change the GRPC protocol version for AuthServices and RateLimitServices. See the CHANGELOG for details.
NOTICE: -global-: A future Ambassador version will change the GRPC protocol version for AuthServices and RateLimitServices. See the CHANGELOG for details.
NOTICE: -global-: A future Ambassador version will change the GRPC protocol version for AuthServices and RateLimitServices. See the CHANGELOG for details.
…
at the start. This is silly.

LINK:
https://github.com/datawire/ambassador/issues/2634

Can someone help me to fix it?

Thank you

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tuba November 8, 2020

Hello, I am getting a similar error with td-agent file. I checked on various pages but not clear yet.

ERROR:
ERROR! We were unable to read either as JSON nor YAML, these are the errors we got from each:
JSON: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Syntax Error while loading YAML.
did not find expected <document start>

The error appears to be in ’/address/to/path/log-aggregator.yml:
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

<store>
    @type s3
    s3_bucket {{ s3_bucket_name }}
    s3_region {{ s3_bucket_region }}
    s3_object_key_format %{path}/name%{time_slice}.json.%{file_extension}
    path platform/core_name_log_v1_1m/%Y/%m/%d/%H
    time_slice_format %Y%m%d_%H%M
    store_as gzip
    include_tag_key true
    tag_key tag
    buffer_type file
    buffer_path /var/log/td-agent/cello/core/name
    buffer_queue_limit 512
    buffer_chunk_limit 2m
    flush_interval 10s
    utc
    grant_full_control id=jh11qfhj67676le1p092f2xxuxxxxxxxxxxxxx3b5609t2ff6d77771020129356
    check_object false
  </store>
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basavarajbhavi July 7, 2021

check the ansible version and upgrade it and check python version also as stack require higher version of ansible and python

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  • suribabuvenigandla August 1, 2021
    • name: test hosts: localhost tasks: -name: launching AWS instance using Ansible EC2 EC2: keyname: suriaws instancetype: t2.micro image: ami-0c2b8ca1dad447f8a region: us-east-1a wait: yes count: 1 assignpublicip: yes

    i am also getting same Error

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