Problem: Non-compliant Role Paths Result in Role Not Found Error

[zzecool]

Issue

My structure is like this :

ansible/
├── playbooks/
│   └── servers_daily_maintenance.yml
│   
└── roles/
    ├── prune_dangling_docker_resources/
    │   └── tasks/
    │       └── main.yml
    │   
    └── update_apt_servers/
        └── tasks/
            └── main.yml

This is by the Ansible documentation.

When i run the playbook servers_daily_maintenance.yml it fails like this :

No roles/requirements.yml file found. Skip galaxy install process.
ERROR! the role 'update_apt_servers' was not found in /tmp/semaphore/repository_5_52/playbooks/roles:/tmp/semaphore/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles:/tmp/semaphore/repository_5_52/playbooks

The error appears to be in '/tmp/semaphore/repository_5_52/playbooks/servers_daily_maintenance.yml': line 5, column 7, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

  roles:
    - update_apt_servers
      ^ here

Running playbook failed: exit status 1

Am I missing somthing ?

Thanks in advance.

Impact

Ansible (task execution), Configuration, Semaphore Project

Installation method

Docker

Browser

Chrome

Semaphore Version

v2.9.75

Ansible Version

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Logs & errors

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Manual installation - system information

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Configuration

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Additional information

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[zzecool]

Im blind.

Thomas helped me in Telegram

I have to either move roles under playbooks or add ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=

Thanks Thomas !

[Thomas Boerger]

I think we can close this, right?

[Svennd]

sorry for the noob questions but where would you add ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH ? in the enviromnent, in your playbook ? What would that be then ? ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=../ ?

I found this issue : #1609 which adds in the root ansible.cfg which adds : roles in the repo as valid path :

[defaults]
roles_path = roles:/tmp/semaphore/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles
collections_paths = collections:/tmp/semaphore/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections

So that solves it for me :)

[Thomas Boerger]

For the docker deployment you can define this as an env variable.