Question
Syntax Error while loading YAML. mapping values are not allowed in this context
- Posted on August 1, 2021
- Ubuntu 18.04Ansible
Asked by suribabuvenigandla
i am getting error with below yaml file.could you please help me
- name: test hosts: localhost tasks: -name: launching AWS instance using Ansible EC2 EC2: key_name: suriaws instance_type: t2.micro image: ami-0c2b8ca1dad447f8a region: us-east-1a wait: yes count: 1 assign_public_ip: yes
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Hello,
It looks like that you might have an indentation error in the YAML file.
Can you share the whole YAML so I could advise you further?
Alternatively, you could use this tool to check the syntax of your YAML file and fix any indentation errors that popup:
https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby