Ansible install RethinkDB on ubuntu 16

Question

I am trying to use ansible package to install a specific version of RethinkDB on ubuntu 16.04.

I use :

- name: Ensure rethinkDB package repository is present
  apt_repository: repo='deb http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt xenial main' state=present
  tags:
    - rethinkdb

- name: install RethinkDB
  package: name=rethinkdb-2.3.2 state=latest
  tags:
    - rethinkdb

However I get the following error:

TASK [install RethinkDB] ******************************************************* task path: /Users/nha/.../playbook.yml:173 fatal: [machine]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "No package matching 'rethinkdb-2.3.2' is available"} to retry, use: --limit @ops/ansible/playbook.retry

Even leaving out the version, I get the error:

TASK [install RethinkDB] ******************************************************* task path: /Users/nha/.../playbook.yml:173 fatal: [machine]: FAILED! => {"cache_update_time": 0, "cache_updated": false, "changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "'/usr/bin/apt-get -y -o \"Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef\" -o \"Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold\" install 'rethinkdb'' failed: E: There were unauthenticated packages and -y was used without --allow-unauthenticated\n", "stderr": "E: There were unauthenticated packages and -y was used without --allow-unauthenticated\n", "stdout": "Reading package lists...\nBuilding dependency tree...\nReading state information...\nThe following additional packages will be installed:\n libcurl3\nThe following NEW packages will be installed:\n libcurl3 rethinkdb\n0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.\nNeed to get 11.2 MB of archives.\nAfter this operation, 40.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.\nWARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!\n rethinkdb\n", "stdout_lines": ["Reading package lists...", "Building dependency tree...", "Reading state information...", "The following additional packages will be installed:", " libcurl3", "The following NEW packages will be installed:", " libcurl3 rethinkdb", "0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.", "Need to get 11.2 MB of archives.", "After this operation, 40.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.", "WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!", " rethinkdb"]} to retry, use: --limit @ops/ansible/playbook.retry

ydaetskcoR ydaetskcoR · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-27T17:34:31

The first error message states that the RethinkDB apt repo doesn't contain a package for a 2.3.2 version.

The second error is because you haven't yet added the apt key to trust this repo. RethinkDB's Ubuntu installation instructions also mentions that you will need to add their apt key.

You can easily do this with the apt_key module:

- name: add rethinkdb apt key
  apt_key: url=https://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg

As an aside, it doesn't really make much sense to specify a version and then also specify latest on the state.

Ansible install RethinkDB on ubuntu 16

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