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Ansible: 'assert' task looking for unexpected name

I try to verify that my docker compose suit is up with task

- name: Verify that web and db services are running
  ansible.builtin.assert:
    that:
      - "output.services.artifactory-exporter-pdp.devopsmonitoring_artifactory-exporter-pdp_1.state.running"
  ...

this give me a failure message:

2023-07-20T13:57:06.2633470Z fatal: [server]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check 'output.services.artifactory-exporter-pdp.devopsmonitoring_artifactory-exporter-pdp_1.state.running' failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (output.services.artifactory-exporter-pdp.devopsmonitoring_artifactory-exporter-pdp_1.state.running): 'dict object' has no attribute 'artifactory'"}

and in the associated output I clearly see that it's a 1:1 match.

Are there any special characters here that I should escape, or something I'm missing?

Solution

  • Are there any special characters here that I should escape?

    Yes, according to Creating valid variable names

    Not all strings are valid Ansible variable names. A variable name can only include letters, numbers, and underscores. Python keywords or playbook keywords are not valid variable names.

    That's why the string gets cut off and you get an error message

    'dict object' has no attribute 'artifactory'

    as the systems if looking for

    output.services.artifactory

    which is obviously not existing.

    You may try with array notation

    output.services['artifactory-exporter-pdp']['devopsmonitoring_artifactory-exporter-pdp_1'].state.running

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