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I am trying to install chef automate using chef habitat with ansible.

here is the related section of main.yml

- name: get aib filename

    find:

      paths: /home/ec2-user

      file_type: file

      use_regex: yes

      patterns:

        - '^automate.*'

    register: file_automate



  - name: deploy chef-automatev2

    command: "sudo chef-automate deploy '/home/ec2-user/config.toml' --accept-terms-and-mlsa --skip-preflight --airgap-bundle '/home/ec2-user/{{ file_automate.files }}'"

but getting error:

TASK [deploy chef-automatev2]
***************************************************************************fatal: [10.1.1.2]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["sudo",
"chef-automate", "deploy", "/home/ec2-user/config.toml",
"--accept-terms-and-mlsa", "--skip-preflight", "--airgap-bundle",
"/home/ec2-user/[{uuid: 0, uwoth: False, umtime: 1540882069.3233995,
uinode: 82, uisgid: False, usize: 605693959, uisuid: False, uisreg:
True, upw_name: uroot, ugid: 0, uischr: False, uwusr: True, uxoth:
False, uislnk: False, unlink: 1, uissock: False, urgrp: True,
ugr_name: uroot, upath: u/home/ec2-user/automate-20181020020209.aib,
uxusr: False, uatime: 1540882068.8493989, uisdir: False, uctime:
1540882074.7854095, uisblk: False, uwgrp: False, uxgrp: False, udev: 64768, uroth: True, uisfifo: False, umode: u0644, urusr: True}]"],
"delta": "0:00:00.026909", "end": "2018-10-30 06:48:00.362616", "msg":
"non-zero return code", "rc": 94, "start": "2018-10-30
06:48:00.335707", "stderr": "Error: DeployError: Unable to install,
configure and start the service: Failed to unpack airgap artifact:
Failed to open install bundle file /home/ec2-user/[{uuid: 0, uwoth:
False, umtime: 1540882069.3233995, uinode: 82, uisgid: False, usize:
605693959, uisuid: False, uisreg: True, upw_name: uroot, ugid: 0,
uischr: False, uwusr: True, uxoth: False, uislnk: False, unlink: 1,
uissock: False, urgrp: True, ugr_name: uroot, upath:
u/home/ec2-user/automate-20181020020209.aib, uxusr: False, uatime:
1540882068.8493989, uisdir: False, uctime: 1540882074.7854095, uisblk: False, uwgrp: False, uxgrp: False, udev: 64768, uroth: True, uisfifo:
False, umode: u0644, urusr: True}]: open /home/ec2-user/[{uuid: 0,
uwoth: False, umtime: 1540882069.3233995, uinode: 82, uisgid: False,
usize: 605693959, uisuid: False, uisreg: True, upw_name: uroot, ugid:
0, uischr: False, uwusr: True, uxoth: False, uislnk: False, unlink: 1,
uissock: False, urgrp: True, ugr_name: uroot, upath:
u/home/ec2-user/automate-20181020020209.aib, uxusr: False, uatime:
1540882068.8493989, uisdir: False, uctime: 1540882074.7854095, uisblk: False, uwgrp: False, uxgrp: False, udev: 64768, uroth: True, uisfifo:
False, umode: u0644, urusr: True}]: file name too long",
"stderr_lines": ["Error: DeployError: Unable to install, configure and
start the service: Failed to unpack airgap artifact: Failed to open
install bundle file /home/ec2-user/[{uuid: 0, uwoth: False, umtime:
1540882069.3233995, uinode: 82, uisgid: False, usize: 605693959, uisuid: False, uisreg: True, upw_name: uroot, ugid: 0, uischr: False,
uwusr: True, uxoth: False, uislnk: False, unlink: 1, uissock: False,
urgrp: True, ugr_name: uroot, upath:
u/home/ec2-user/automate-20181020020209.aib, uxusr: False, uatime:
1540882068.8493989, uisdir: False, uctime: 1540882074.7854095, uisblk: False, uwgrp: False, uxgrp: False, udev: 64768, uroth: True, uisfifo:
False, umode: u0644, urusr: True}]: open /home/ec2-user/[{uuid: 0,
uwoth: False, umtime: 1540882069.3233995, uinode: 82, uisgid: False,
usize: 605693959, uisuid: False, uisreg: True, upw_name: uroot, ugid:
0, uischr: False, uwusr: True, uxoth: False, uislnk: False, unlink: 1,
uissock: False, urgrp: True, ugr_name: uroot, upath:
u/home/ec2-user/automate-20181020020209.aib, uxusr: False, uatime:
1540882068.8493989, uisdir: False, uctime: 1540882074.7854095, uisblk: False, uwgrp: False, uxgrp: False, udev: 64768, uroth: True, uisfifo:
False, umode: u0644, urusr: True}]: file name too long"], "stdout":
"nInstalling artifact", "stdout_lines": ["", "Installing artifact"]}

and if i use:

 - name: deploy chef-automatev2

    command: "chef-automate deploy config.toml --accept-terms-and-mlsa --skip-preflight --airgap-bundle {{ file_automate.files }}"

i get error:

TASK [deploy chef-automatev2]
**************************************************************************** fatal: [10.1.1.20]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd":
["chef-automate", "deploy", "config.toml", "--accept-terms-and-mlsa",
"--skip-preflight", "--airgap-bundle", "[{uuid:", "0,", "uwoth:",
"False,", "umtime:", "1540883970.2111344,", "uinode:", "83,",
"uisgid:", "False,", "usize:", "605693959,", "uisuid:", "False,",
"uisreg:", "True,", "upw_name:", "uroot,", "ugid:", "0,", "uischr:",
"False,", "uwusr:", "True,", "uxoth:", "False,", "uislnk:", "False,",
"unlink:", "1,", "uissock:", "False,", "urgrp:", "True,", "ugr_name:",
"uroot,", "upath:", "u/home/ec2-user/automate-20181020020209.aib,",
"uxusr:", "False,", "uatime:", "1540883969.7361338,", "uisdir:",
"False,", "uctime:", "1540883975.674141,", "uisblk:", "False,",
"uwgrp:", "False,", "uxgrp:", "False,", "udev:", "64768,", "uroth:",
"True,", "uisfifo:", "False,", "umode:", "u0644,", "urusr:",
"True}]"], "delta": "0:00:00.014548", "end": "2018-10-30
07:19:41.288141", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 113, "start":
"2018-10-30 07:19:41.273593", "stderr": "Error: UnknownError: accepts
between 0 and 1 arg(s), received 62", "stderr_lines": ["Error:
UnknownError: accepts between 0 and 1 arg(s), received 62"], "stdout":
"", "stdout_lines": } to retry, use: --limit
@/home/ec2-user/ANSIBLE/clusterOps/roles/chef-automatev2/defaults/main.retry

was able to get the dictionary item:

- hosts: chefclusterautomatev2

  remote_user: ec2-user

  become: yes

  become_method: sudo

  connection: ssh

  gather_facts: true

  tasks:



  - name: get aib filename

    find:

      paths: /home/ec2-user

    register: res



  - name: deploy chef-automatev2

    debug:

      msg: printing aib filename

    with_items: "{{ res.files | map(attribute='path') | first}}"

Thanks to Matthew
i get at playbook run:

TASK [deploy chef-automatev2] *************************************************************************

ok: [1.1.1.17] => (item=/home/ec2-user/automate-20181019225406.aib) => {

    "msg": "printing aib filename"

}

Now the question is how to use this object in "command" or "shell" ansible modules

Here is how I resolved the question of using the object in a shell command:

- hosts: localhost

  remote_user: a3x52zz

  connection: ssh

  gather_facts: true

  tasks:



  - name: get aib filename

    find:

      paths: /Users/a3x52zz/ansible-test

      file_type: "file"

      patterns: "automate*.aib"

    register: files_matched

  - debug:

      msg: "{{files_matched.files[1].path}}"



  - name: cat filename

    command: cat "{{files_matched.files[1].path}}"

If you were to read the error message, you would see that file_automate.files does not contain a list of filenames but rather contains a list of python objects, likely as the result of calling stat:

  "cmd": [

    "sudo",

    "chef-automate",

    "deploy",

    "/home/ec2-user/config.toml",

    "--accept-terms-and-mlsa",

    "--skip-preflight",

    "--airgap-bundle",

    "/home/ec2-user/[{uuid: 0, uwoth: False, umtime: 1540882069.3233995, uinode: 82, uisgid: False, usize: 605693959, uisuid: False, uisreg: True, upw_name: uroot, ugid: 0, uischr: False, uwusr: True, uxoth: False, uislnk: False, unlink: 1, uissock: False, urgrp: True, ugr_name: uroot, upath: u/home/ec2-user/automate-20181020020209.aib, uxusr: False, uatime: 1540882068.8493989, uisdir: False, uctime: 1540882074.7854095, uisblk: False, uwgrp: False, uxgrp: False, udev: 64768, uroth: True, uisfifo: False, umode: u0644, urusr: True}]"

  ],

If you want just the list of filenames, {{ file_automate.files | map(attribute="path") | list }} should give that to you, although you'll want to omit the leading /home/ec2-user/ because as one can see, the path field of that object in files is already fully qualified.