Need help running Ansible Playbook to install Elastic Search

[Shahzeb_Siddiqui]

Looking at https://github.com/elastic/ansible-elasticsearch I am trying to install elastic search.

I have run command

ansible-galaxy install elastic.elasticsearch

Now I have the following file, I added the two parameters es_api_basic_auth_username and es_api_basic_auth_password and now trying to run the playbook.

[siddis14@adwnode1 ~]$ cat elastic.yml

• name: Elasticsearch with custom configuration
  hosts: localhost
  roles:
  • role: elastic.elasticsearch
    vars:
    es_instance_name: "node1"
    es_data_dirs:
    • "/opt/elasticsearch/data"
      es_log_dir: "/opt/elasticsearch/logs"
      es_config:
      node.name: "node1"
      cluster.name: "custom-cluster"
      discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: "localhost:9301"
      http.port: 9201
      transport.tcp.port: 9301
      node.data: false
      node.master: true
      bootstrap.memory_lock: true
      es_scripts: false
      es_templates: false
      es_version_lock: false
      es_heap_size: 1g
      es_start_service: false
      es_plugins_reinstall: false
      es_api_port: 9201
      es_plugins:
    • plugin: ingest-geoip
      proxy_host: proxy.example.com
      proxy_port: 8080
      es_api_basic_auth_username: elastic
      es_api_basic_auth_password: elastic

when I run this I get stuck on a task error. I dont know what to do at this point

TASK [elastic.elasticsearch : RedHat - Ensure Java is installed] *********************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "The Python 2 bindings for rpm are needed for this module. If you require Python 3 support use the dnf Ansible module instead.. The Python 2 yum module is needed for this module. If you require Python 3 support use the dnf Ansible module instead."}
to retry, use: --limit @/home/siddis14/elastic.retry

PLAY RECAP ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=14 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1

[Shahzeb_Siddiqui]

I was able to get further in the installation by adding hosts: es_master

Now I am getting a weird path error for java during check which doesnt make sense

TASK [elastic.elasticsearch : correct java version selected] *************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [adwnode1.pfizer.com]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Specified path /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.131-2.b11.el7_3.x86_64/jre/bin/java\n/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-oracle-1.8.0.131-1jpp.1.el7_3.x86_64/jre/bin/java does not exist"}
to retry, use: --limit @/home/siddis14/elastic.retry

PLAY RECAP ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
adwnode1.pfizer.com : ok=16 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1

Looking at the path I have these files installed via rpms

[siddis14@adwnode1 ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.131-2.b11.el7_3.x86_64/jre/bin/java
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7336 Apr 13 2017 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.131-2.b11.el7_3.x86_64/jre/bin/java

[siddis14@adwnode1 ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-oracle-1.8.0.131-1jpp.1.el7_3.x86_64/jre/bin/java
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7734 Apr 6 2017 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-oracle-1.8.0.131-1jpp.1.el7_3.x86_64/jre/bin/java

These are the rpms installed in my system

[siddis14@adwnode1 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep java-1.8.0
java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.131-2.b11.el7_3.x86_64
java-1.8.0-oracle-javafx-1.8.0.131-1jpp.1.el7_3.x86_64
java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.131-2.b11.el7_3.x86_64
java-1.8.0-oracle-1.8.0.131-1jpp.1.el7_3.x86_64
java-1.8.0-oracle-src-1.8.0.131-1jpp.1.el7_3.x86_64
java-1.8.0-oracle-devel-1.8.0.131-1jpp.1.el7_3.x86_64
java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.131-2.b11.el7_3.x86_64

[michael.russell]

Hi @Shahzeb_Siddiqui

Looks like you ran into a genuine bug with the ansible playbook which I have fixed in Only use the first found java version if there are multiple installed by Crazybus · Pull Request #493 · elastic/ansible-elasticsearch · GitHub. Thanks for finding and reporting it!

Since it looks like you already have java installed on this machine I think you might want to be disabling the java install from this role. You can do this by setting es_java_install: false

Taken from the additional configuration section in the readme.

• es_java_install If set to false, Java will not be installed. (true (default) or false)