LAB: Ansible Playbooks - Error Handling

[francsw]

• [x] Create a playbook, /home/ansible/report.yml.
  • [x] Configure the playbook to download http://apps.l33t.com/- transaction_list to /home/ansible/transaction_list on localhost - and output "File downloaded." to stdout.
  • [x] Configure the playbook to handle connection failure by outputting - "l33t.com appears to be down. Try again later." to stdout.
  • [x] Configure the playbook to output "Attempt Completed" to stdout, - whether it was successful or not.
  • [x] Configure the playbook to replace all instances of #BLANKLINE with - the line break character \n.
  • [x] Run the playbook using the default inventory to verify whether things work or not.
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[francsw]

---
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no
  become: no

  tasks:
  - name: Download tthe file from node1
    block:
      - get_url:
          url: http://node1/transaction_list
          dest: ./transaction_list
      - debug:
          msg: "File downloaded"
      - name: Replace BLANKFILE
        replace:
          path: ./transaction_list
          regexp: '#BLANKLINE'
          replace: '\n'
    rescue:
      - name: It fialed
        debug:
          msg: "node1 seems to be down. Try again later"
    always:
      - debug:
          msg: "Attempt Completed"