Fix PowerShell and Sudo Incompatibility in Ansible

Explore how to troubleshoot and fix the PowerShell shell family is incompatible with the sudo become plugin error in Ansible with Luca Berton on Ansible Pilot.

Introduction

Welcome back to Ansible Pilot! I'm Luca Berton, and today we're diving into Ansible troubleshooting, focusing on the error that states "the PowerShell shell family is incompatible with the sudo become plugin." Join me as we explore how to reproduce, troubleshoot, and fix this runtime error in Ansible.

The Demo

To better understand and solve the "the PowerShell shell family is incompatible with the sudo become plugin" error, let's jump into a live Playbook.

Error Code

``yaml


incompatiblesudo_error.yml
---
name: win_reboot module Playbook
  hosts: all
  become: true
  tasks:
    - name: reboot host(s)
      ansible.windows.win_reboot:



Error Execution

`bash


$ ansible-playbook -i win/inventory troubleshooting/incompatiblesudo_error.yml
PLAY [win_reboot module Playbook] *
TASK [Gathering Facts] 
fatal: [WindowsServer]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The PowerShell shell family is incompatible with the sudo become plugin"}
PLAY RECAP **
WindowsServer              : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0



Fix Code

`yaml


incompatiblesudo_fix.yml
--- 
name: win_reboot module Playbook
  hosts: all
  become: false
  tasks:
    - name: reboot host(s)
      ansible.windows.win_reboot:



Fix Execution

`bash


$ ansible-playbook -i win/inventory troubleshooting/incompatiblesudo_fix.yml
PLAY [win_reboot module Playbook] *
TASK [Gathering Facts] 
ok: [WindowsServer]
TASK [reboot host(s)] *
changed: [WindowsServer]
PLAY RECAP **
WindowsServer              : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

Conclusion

In this troubleshooting guide, we successfully tackled the "PowerShell incompatible with the sudo become plugin" error in Ansible. By adjusting the playbook to disable the become plugin, we overcame the compatibility issue.

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