Foreman Not Finding Ansible Roles

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Problem:
I am setting up Foreman using the following option:
–foreman-proxy-plugin-ansible-ansible-dir=’/ansible/roles’
I have placed a role under this directory but when I try to import the role, Foreman shows the message “No changes in roles detected on hostname”.
If I place the role under /etc/ansible/roles, the import works.
Any idea why this install option doesn’t seem to be working?

Foreman and Proxy versions:
Foreman and Foreman Proxy are at version 1.20.1

Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:
Ansible plugin is at version 2.2.11

Other relevant data:
I doesn’t seem to be adding the roles_path in /etc/foreman-proxy/ansible.cfg, but even adding it manually doesn’t fix the problem.

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I think the ansible.cfg actually lives at ~foreman-proxy/.ansible.cfg, try checking if roles_path is set there. Does manually adding it there help?

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Sorry for the delay on this. Our infrastructure for deploying foreman has been down for a while and we just got it back up.

roles_path wasn’t set in ~foreman-proxy/.ansible.cfg when I checked; I tried adding it manually, but it didn’t help.

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Can you double check the user foreman-proxy can read that directory? Also could you please set debug log level in /etc/foreman-proxy/settings.yml, then restart service foreman-proxy and look at /var/log/foreman-proxy/proxy.log? Ideally capture that when trying to import ansible roles and upload it here.

Also there was a nasty issue fixed recently, in case there were multiple roles_dirs configured and the last directory was empty, it returned empty list so it could be it.

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Just one blind guess: Is SELinux enabled? Creating a new toplevel directory like /ansible will generate a context of unlabeled_t which will probably not accessible by Foreman.

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I created a symlink to /ansible/roles from /etc/ansible/roles and this actually worked so it’s not a permissions or SELinux issue.

Unfortunately, I cannot import roles at all now because I reinstalled using Foreman 1.21 so I can get the newer Ansible plugin which supports variable import (which I need). The new installation isn’t showing the smart proxy on localhost under Infrastructure->Smart Proxies. Is there a known issue with 1.21?

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Also, when I try to create the proxy manually (I didn’t have to do this in 1.20) I get a Only one declaration of a proxy is allowed error.

Is there a known issue with 1.21? Should I open a new topic for this?

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Are you logged in as admin? Perhaps the proxy is not assigned to any organization, try switching to “Any organization” context.

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Yup… not assigning to the current organization was the problem. Now I feel dumb. Thank you for the help.
Okay, now back to debugging the original issue. I will update when I can.

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Thanks for confirmation, it’s actually pretty bad user experience. If there’s single org in the system, resources should be automatically assigned to it.

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I set the logging to DEBUG, restarted foreman-proxy, and tried the import. It didn’t pick up any new roles (the ones I already imported with the workaround were available for removal as expected). Here is the output of /var/log/foreman-proxy/proxy.log

2019-02-28T15:30:11 [D] accept: 172.22.254.201:39402
2019-02-28T15:30:11 [D] Rack::Handler::WEBrick is invoked.
2019-02-28T15:30:11 e7c9070a [I] Started GET /roles
2019-02-28T15:30:11 e7c9070a [I] Finished GET /roles with 200 (0.57 ms)
2019-02-28T15:30:11 [D] close: 172.22.254.201:39402

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@Marek_Hulan I am also facing the same issue as @ethancpace. This is my error log
2021-07-28T13:53:43 [D] Rack::Handler::WEBrick is invoked.
2021-07-28T13:53:43 724235d6 [I] Started GET /ansible/roles
2021-07-28T13:53:43 724235d6 [I] Finished GET /ansible/roles with 200 (0.89 ms)
2021-07-28T13:53:43 [D] close: 161.92.208.226:37668

Could you kindly help me?

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@almond This thread is from over 2 years ago and related to very old versions of Foreman and the ansible plugin. Even if you are facing a similar issue, it is likely not the same issue as described in this thread. Please open a new thread with the issue you are facing.

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Already opened. Could you please guide me?

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@tbrisker Here’s the link Foreman is not finding ansible roles