Splunk Upgrade is not working

[tonyprinzler]

Describe the bug After installing Splunk with version 8.2.1 via the ansible deployment, the upgrade to version is going wrong

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: config: `---

splunk_config.yml

plugin: splunkenizer

custom: ansible_port: 22 ansible_user: labuser become_user: root

os: packages:

• unzip
• epel-release
• sysstat
• lsof
• net-tools

  Disable SELinux

  disable_selinux: true

  Disable AppArmor

  disable_apparmor: true

  Do not update /etc/hosts file

  update_hosts_file: false

virtualbox:

box: "centos/7" # Default

box: "ubuntu/xenial64"

Splunk default settings

splunk_defaults: splunk_env_name: splk splunk_version: '8.2.3' splunk_admin_password: 'splunklab'

splunk_license_file: Splunk_Enterprise.lic

splunk_indexes:

• test1
• test2

Indexer Cluster settings

splunk_idxclusters:

• idxc_name: idxc1 idxc_password: splunkidxc idxc_replication_port: 9887 idxc_rf: 2 idxc_sf: 2

Splunk hosts with its settings

splunk_hosts:

Cluster Master

• name: host-8947 roles:

  • cluster_master
  • deployment_server
  • monitoring_console

    - license_master

    idxcluster: idxc1

  Cluster Indexer

• name: host-8948 roles:

  • indexer idxcluster: idxc1

  Cluster Indexer

• name: host-8945 roles:

  • indexer idxcluster: idxc1

  Single Search Head

• name: host-8946 roles:

  • search_head

  Universal Forwarder

• name: host-8959 roles:
  • universal_forwarder`

commands tested:

• ansible-playbook ansible/upgrade_splunk.yml --ask-pass --ask-become-pass
• ansible-playbook ansible/upgrade_splunk.yml --skip-tags splunk_control --ask-pass --ask-become-pass

Expected behavior I expected splunk will be upgraded by the playbook Screenshots If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: CentOS Linux release 8.5.2111
• Ansible Version: ansible 2.9.27

Additional context TASK [splunk_software : find target version] ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* fatal: [host-8947]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check 'find_target_version|default(true) is true' failed. The error was: template error while templating string: no test named 'true'. String: {% if find_target_version|default(true) is true %} True {% else %} False {% endif %}\n\nThe error appears to be in '/home/tony/Vagrant/Splunkenizer/ansible/roles/splunk_software/tasks/check_splunk_version.yml': line 31, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: find target version\n ^ here\n"} fatal: [host-8948]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check 'find_target_version|default(true) is true' failed. The error was: template error while templating string: no test named 'true'. String: {% if find_target_version|default(true) is true %} True {% else %} False {% endif %}\n\nThe error appears to be in '/home/tony/Vagrant/Splunkenizer/ansible/roles/splunk_software/tasks/check_splunk_version.yml': line 31, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: find target version\n ^ here\n"} fatal: [host-8945]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check 'find_target_version|default(true) is true' failed. The error was: template error while templating string: no test named 'true'. String: {% if find_target_version|default(true) is true %} True {% else %} False {% endif %}\n\nThe error appears to be in '/home/tony/Vagrant/Splunkenizer/ansible/roles/splunk_software/tasks/check_splunk_version.yml': line 31, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: find target version\n ^ here\n"} fatal: [host-8946]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check 'find_target_version|default(true) is true' failed. The error was: template error while templating string: no test named 'true'. String: {% if find_target_version|default(true) is true %} True {% else %} False {% endif %}\n\nThe error appears to be in '/home/tony/Vagrant/Splunkenizer/ansible/roles/splunk_software/tasks/check_splunk_version.yml': line 31, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: find target version\n ^ here\n"} fatal: [host-8959]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check 'find_target_version|default(true) is true' failed. The error was: template error while templating string: no test named 'true'. String: {% if find_target_version|default(true) is true %} True {% else %} False {% endif %}\n\nThe error appears to be in '/home/tony/Vagrant/Splunkenizer/ansible/roles/splunk_software/tasks/check_splunk_version.yml': line 31, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: find target version\n ^ here\n"}

[splunkenizer]

Looks like the same issue of evaluating true or false in the code. So, when I fix Issue #18 this one can be fixed as well and can go through the code to find all the occurrences.

[splunkenizer]

sub playbooks cannot be run directly with ansible-playbook command. Because they are based on artifacts defined from the main or other sub playbook called from main. So, that's why you get the error here.

[tonyprinzler]

Hi, thats true. This was a mistake by my site. But the error described came up by executing the upgrade yaml.

[splunkenizer]

This will be fixed in #18 as this is a duplicate of the root cause.