Ansible will throw this error when you are trying to display the stdout (or) stderr of a task during playbook runtime.
– This error is a result of the playbook configured to use “become”. And have not been properly configured “become_method: runas” for a windows target, and as such it is attempting to use the sudo become plugin.
TASK [Gathering Facts] ****
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: AttributeError: 'ShellModule' object has no attribute 'ECHO'
fatal: [192.168.178.43]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution.", "stdout": ""}
Solution: Set “ansible_become_method: runas” in your Ansible inventory file. Otherwise, it is trying to use sudo (the default) on a Windows machine, which will not work.
ansible_become_method: runas
– Adjust the inventory file. Therefore, setting become_method to runas, which is the only method supported by Windows.
To view full traceback, use the command below (where createfile.ym will be replaced by your playbook).
- ansible-playbook -b -vvv createfile.yml
Where the following parameters are explained below
-b: run operations with become (same as —become).
-vvv: verbose mode (-vvv for more, -vvvv to enable connection debugging).
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