Error : mapping values are not allowed in this context

Following is the code. Verified indentation. Unable to figure out the exact issue.

Code :

 - name: Create K8s ingress k8s: api_version: namespace: "{{namespace}}" definition: kind: Ingress metadata: name: "{{namespace}}-ingress" annotations: HTTP "" "" 'false' 'false' 'false' core-service core-service spec: rules: - host: "{MY_DOMAIN}}" http: paths: - backend: service: name: "wordpress" port: number: 80 path: / pathType: ImplementationSpecific 

Error : Syntax Error while loading YAML. mapping values are not allowed in this context

The error appears to be in '/mnt/disc2/workspace/wp-sr-demo/auth-playbooks/wordpress/roles/deploy/tasks/main.yml': line 110, column 51, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

 "" ^ here 

This one looks easy to fix. It seems that there is a value started with a quote, and the YAML parser is expecting to see the line ended with the same kind of quote. For instance:

when: "ok" in result.stdout 

Could be written as:

when: '"ok" in result.stdout'

Or equivalently:

when: "'ok' in result.stdout"

1 Answer

Indentation of the attributes name and k8s is wrong

 - name: Create K8s ingress k8s: 

The correct indentation of the attributes name and k8s must be the same because they belong to the same dictionary

 - name: Create K8s ingress k8s: 

If you move the first line two spaces to the right you'll get valid YAML.