[SOLVED] ansible-playbook shell module doesn't work

Issue

I set up a new Ansible project, in which I want to connect to my EC2 machines and run a few commands.

I added my inventory files, and when I test out a simple Ansible command, everything works fine and I get a response.

ansible all -m shell -a 'uptime' or ansible all -m ping works well and returns the expected output.

However, when I'm trying to run a simple playbook that uses the built-in shell module, it fails.

Ansible playbook command: ansible-playbook -vvv playbooks/my_playbook.yaml Playbook file:

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes
  tasks:
    -   name: Gather EC2 facts
        action: ec2_facts
- hosts: all
  become: yes
  tasks:
    -   name: my task
        shell: uptime

Gathering EC2 facts works well, but the second part of running a shell command fails with the following exception:

<1.2.3.4> Failed to connect to the host via ssh: 
fatal: [1.2.3.4]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false
}

MSG:

This module has been removed. The module documentation for Ansible-2.6 may contain hints for porting

I can't figure out why I'm getting this exception, as the shell module was never deprecated. I also don't use Ansible-2.6, I installed Ansible through pip, versions:

ansible==2.9.27
ansible-core==2.15.8

I tried to change to the command module, which resulted in the same exception, so I suspect it has to do something with my local environment and not with the shell module itself.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Solution

You are calling ec2_facts as a module, which has been deprecated and then removed in Ansible 2.7 (they failed to list it in the documentation though). Try to use ec2_metadata_facts instead.

Answered By - Alexander Pletnev

Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (WPSolving Volunteer)