Can't find java

[svanschalkwyk]

This shows that the jre has been installed. Yet when I try to find java on the GCE, it is not found.
Tried on Debian-8/9, Ubuntu 16.04 etc. etc.
TASK [ansible-role-java : Ensure Java is installed.] ***************************
task path: /home/steph/Ansible/repos/compute-video-demo-ansible/roles/ansible-role-java/tasks/setup-Debian.yml:2
ok: [104.154..42] => (item=[u'openjdk-8-jdk']) => {"cache_update_time": 1500411978, "cache_updated": false, "changed": false, "failed": false, "item": ["openjdk-8-jdk"]}
ok: [35.188..104] => (item=[u'openjdk-8-jdk']) => {"cache_update_time": 1500411978, "cache_updated": false, "changed": false, "failed": false, "item": ["openjdk-8-jdk"]}

[geerlingguy]

How are you trying to test this, and if it's on GCE, what kind of instance/state are you using? I haven't encountered any issues when installing on Docker locally, in VirtualBox VMs, nor in DigitalOcean droplets or AWS EC2 instances...

If Ansible is reporting ok, then it's seeing the package installed (openjdk-8-jdk). What's the output of java -version?

[svanschalkwyk]

# Running from Ansible source # Common Compute Engine instance variables machine_type: n1-standard-1 image: ubuntu-1604 (also tested with Debian-7/8/9) cli: $ansible-playbook -i ./ansible_hosts, -c local site.yml ansible_hosts contents: myinstance[1:2] Running produces: ```ok: [./ansible_hosts] => {"changed": false, "failed": false, "instance_data": [{"disks": ["myinstance1"], "image": "ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20170619a", "machine_type": "n1-standard-1", "metadata": {}, "name": "myinstance1", "network": "default", "private_ip": "10.128.0.2", "public_ip": "35.188.219.75", "status": "RUNNING", "subnetwork": "default", "tags": [], "zone": "us-central1-a"}], "instance_names": ["myinstance1"], "state": "present", "zone": "us-central1-a"}``` --- ```/ TASK [ansible-role-java : Include version-specific variables for Ubuntu.] / skipping: [./ansible_hosts]``` --- ```< TASK [ansible-role-java : Ensure Java is installed.] > ok: [./ansible_hosts] => (item=[u'openjdk-8-jdk'])``` ------ this is the version on the local machine running the playbook. SSH to the just created machines show no Java.

[geerlingguy]

@svanschalkwyk - If you're passing -c local, that means it will try running the playbook locally, not on your remote server. Therefore it's only doing stuff locally.

You need to remove -c local, and make sure your site.yml playbook uses a hosts set that's defined in your ansible_hosts file.

It might be good for you to ask these questions in the Ansible project Google Group (since it seems you may have a few more procedural questions for using Ansible / CLI options themselves): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-project