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  • 1.  Unable to execute the ansible playbook

    Posted 08-04-2019 16:23

    Hello Experts,

     

    I am trying to set up my first ansible lab to test automation. I am facing difficulties when I run my ansible-playbook.

     

    This is my playbook code

    ---
    - name: Simple junos commands
    hosts: junos-all
    connection: local
    gather_facts: no
    roles:
    - Juniper.junos

    tasks:
    - name: Execute single "show version" command.
    juniper_junos_command:
    commands: "show version"
    register: response

    - name: Print the command output
    debug:
    var: response.stdout
     
    When I run the playbook, I receive the following 
     

    MacBook-Pro:Ansible project deepansiddarthan$ ansible-playbook Simple.yml

    [WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available

     

    [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note

    that the implicit localhost does not match 'all'

     

    [WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: junos-all

     

     

    PLAY [Simple junos commands] ***************************************************

    skipping: no hosts matched

     

    PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************

     

    I understand that I have to create an Inventory file. Should it be in the same folder as my playbook that I am running? Does it search only in this folder. Should the inventory file be named inventory ?. 

     

    I would really appreciate if someone could correct me on my inventory file, any samples would very helpful.

    Let's say the Junos device IP is 192.168.2.11, where do I specify the login methods for username and password. 

     

    hosts:

       junos-all:

          ansible_port: 22

          ansible_host: 192.168.2.11

     

     Any inputs or a better way of representing the inventory  file will be highly appreciated.



  • 2.  RE: Unable to execute the ansible playbook

     
    Posted 08-05-2019 05:07

    So many different ways to define ansible inventory, json, ini, yaml, dynamic, static etc.   Here's a straightforward approach, hope that this helps.

    inventory.ini

    [all:children]
    routers
    switches
    firewalls
    
    [routers]
    mx01 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.1
    mx02 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.2
    
    [firewalls]
    srx01 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.11
    srx02 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.12
    
    [switches]
    qfx01 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.21
    qfx02 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.22
    
    

    so the above, has 4 groups defined, all, routers, firewalls and switches.  You can see that the group "all" is defined so that it will inherit the children from each of the defined groups.  Of course you can create your own groupings, or not even have them, but you can see an approach in this example at least.

     

    I've assigned the IP address for each host using the ansible_ssh_host variable, but once again IP addresses could be defined using any variable and then just provide the appropriate substitution when needed.

     

    For device credentials, I'd stick them in a vault for security, but the yaml equivalent would be something like the following:

     

    credentials:
      host: "{{ ansible_host }}"
      username: autouser
      ssh_keyfile: /var/project/ssh_private_key/id_auto_user
      port: 22
      timeout: 180

    So in this example above I'm pointing to a SSH keyfile for authentication, but it could be a "password" too.  

     

    Finally, when you create your playbook/role, then you will need to reference those credentials for the provider, e.g.

    - name: Gather facts
      juniper_junos_facts:
        provider: "{{ credentials }}"
      register: junos

    Not sure if this is enough detail for you to progress further, if you're still blocked, then please shout again and I'll see what I can do to assist.


    Regards,



  • 3.  RE: Unable to execute the ansible playbook

    Posted 08-05-2019 14:46

    Thank you for your response. 

    This is my playbook

     

    ---
    - name: Simple junos commands
      hosts: lab
      connection: local
      gather_facts: no
      roles:
        - Juniper.junos
      
      tasks:
        - name: Execute single "show version" command.
          juniper_junos_command:
            commands: "show version"
          register: response
    
        - name: Print the command output
          debug:
            var: response.stdout

    My inventory.ini

     

    [all:children]
    routers
    switches
    firewalls
    
    [routers]
    mx01 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.1.1
    mx02 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.2
    
    [firewalls]
    srx01 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.11
    srx02 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.12
    
    [switches]
    lab ansible_ssh_host=192.168.2.10

     

    When I try to run the playbook, I get error messages
     

    PLAY [Simple junos commands] ***************************************************

     

    TASK [Execute single "show version" command.] **********************************

    [WARNING]: Platform darwin on host lab is using the discovered Python

    interpreter at /usr/bin/python, but future installation of another Python

    interpreter could change this. See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/referen

    ce_appendices/interpreter_discovery.html for more information.

     

    fatal: [lab]: FAILED! => {"ansible_facts": {"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"}, "changed": false, "msg": "junos-eznc (aka PyEZ) >= 2.1.7 is required for this module. However, junos-eznc does not appear to be currently installed. See https://github.com/Juniper/py-junos-eznc#installation for details on installing junos-eznc."}

     

    However, I already have it installed 

     

    Successfully installed bcrypt-3.1.7 junos-eznc-2.2.1 lxml-4.4.0 ncclient-0.6.6 netaddr-0.7.19 paramiko-2.6.0 pynacl-1.3.0 pyserial-3.4 scp-0.13.2 selectors2-2.0.1.

     

    I don't know what am I missing. I would really appreciate your suggestion. I could also show my lab environment over a remote web session which would be a great help. 



  • 4.  RE: Unable to execute the ansible playbook

     
    Posted 08-06-2019 06:48

    Could you provide the following output for:
    pip list
    ansible --version
    ansible-galaxy list
    cat ansible.cfg

     

     

    # pip list
    Package                      Version
    ---------------------------- -------------------
    ansible                      2.7.0
    asn1crypto                   0.24.0
    backports.ssl-match-hostname 3.5.0.1
    bcrypt                       3.1.4
    beautifulsoup4               4.6.0
    bs4                          0.0.1
    certifi                      2019.3.9
    cffi                         1.11.5
    chardet                      3.0.4
    colorama                     0.3.9
    configparser                 3.5.0
    CouchDB                      1.2
    cryptography                 2.3.1
    docker                       2.4.2
    docker-py                    1.10.6
    docker-pycreds               0.3.0
    enum34                       1.1.6
    future                       0.16.0
    icdiff                       1.9.1
    idna                         2.8
    ipaddress                    1.0.22
    Jinja2                       2.10
    jsnapy                       1.3.2
    junos-eznc                   2.2.0
    junos-netconify              1.0.2
    jxmlease                     1.0.1
    lxml                         3.8.0
    MarkupSafe                   1.0
    ncclient                     0.6.3
    netaddr                      0.7.19
    paramiko                     2.4.2
    pip                          18.1
    pyasn1                       0.4.4
    pycparser                    2.19
    PyNaCl                       1.3.0
    pynetbox                     4.0.6
    pyparsing                    2.2.2
    pyserial                     3.4
    python-gitlab                0.21.2
    PyYAML                       3.13
    requests                     2.21.0
    scp                          0.11.0
    selectors2                   2.0.1
    setuptools                   33.1.1.post20171031
    six                          1.12.0
    urllib3                      1.24.1
    websocket-client             0.53.0
    You are using pip version 18.1, however version 19.2.1 is available.
    You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
    
    # ansible --version
    ansible 2.7.0
      config file = None
      configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
      ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
      executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
      python version = 2.7.15 (default, Aug 22 2018, 13:24:18) [GCC 6.4.0]
    
    # ansible-galaxy list
    - Juniper.junos, 2.1.0
    
    # cat ansible.cfg

    Many thanks.

     



  • 5.  RE: Unable to execute the ansible playbook

    Posted 08-12-2019 16:32

    Thank you for your reply. Here is the output 

    Deepans-MacBook-Pro:Ansible project deepansiddarthan$ pip list
    DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support
    Package            Version
    ------------------ -------
    ansible            2.8.3  
    ansible-lint       4.1.0  
    asn1crypto         0.24.0 
    bcrypt             3.1.7  
    cffi               1.12.3 
    cryptography       2.7    
    enum34             1.1.6  
    ipaddress          1.0.22 
    Jinja2             2.10.1 
    junos-eznc         2.2.1  
    lxml               4.4.0  
    MarkupSafe         1.1.1  
    ncclient           0.6.6  
    netaddr            0.7.19 
    paramiko           2.6.0  
    pip                19.2.1 
    pycparser          2.19   
    PyNaCl             1.3.0  
    pyserial           3.4    
    PyYAML             5.1.2  
    ruamel.ordereddict 0.4.14 
    ruamel.yaml        0.16.0 
    ruamel.yaml.clib   0.1.0  
    scp                0.13.2 
    selectors2         2.0.1  
    setuptools         41.0.1 
    six                1.12.0 
    wheel              0.33.4 
    WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.1, however version 19.2.2 is available.
    You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
    Deepans-MacBook-Pro:Ansible project deepansiddarthan$ ansible --version
    ansible 2.8.3
      config file = None
      configured module search path = [u'/Users/deepansiddarthan/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
      ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
      executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
      python version = 2.7.16 (default, Jun 19 2019, 07:40:37) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)]
    Deepans-MacBook-Pro:Ansible project deepansiddarthan$ ansible-galaxy list
    ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/deepansiddarthan/.ansible_galaxy'
    to see the full traceback, use -vvv
    Deepans-MacBook-Pro:Ansible project deepansiddarthan$ sudo ansible-galaxy list
    Password:
    # /Users/deepansiddarthan/.ansible/roles
    - Juniper.junos, 2.1.0
     [WARNING]: - the configured path /usr/share/ansible/roles does not exist.
    
     [WARNING]: - the configured path /etc/ansible/roles does not exist.
    
    Deepans-MacBook-Pro:Ansible project deepansiddarthan$ cat ansible.cfg
    cat: ansible.cfg: No such file or directory


  • 6.  RE: Unable to execute the ansible playbook

    Posted 11-13-2019 08:08

    Was there a solution to this issue?