Ansible and FreeBSD: cannot start from scratch?
The first failure I encountered was:fatal: [venkman]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Shared connection to venkman closed.\r\n", "module_stdout": "/bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/python: not found\r\n", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 127}
The important part is
/usr/local/bin/python: not found, that tells exactly what the problem is: FreeBSD installs a minimal system that does not include python.
The solution is, as you can imagine, to install the
python executable, for example by means of:
# pkg install python sudo
As you can see, you need to install also
sudo in order for Ansible to work properly.
The annoying part is that, in order to setup the machine, you need to setup a part of the machine!
Anyway, once
python and sudo are installed, I tried to execute again the playbook, but another failure raised:
fatal: [venkman]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Shared connection to venkman closed.\r\n", "module_stdout": "sudo: a password is required\r\n", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}
You need to ensure that your own user is able to become (in Ansible terminology) without a password, that is you need to edit
sudoers appropriately.