Watch: Ansible troubleshooting - urlopen error

How to reproduce the urlopen error in Ansible, troubleshooting, and fix to be able to successfully open an URL in your playbook.

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: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>", "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] **