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Ansible setup not working ubuntu 22.04 virtualbox alfresco 23.x

Ghanshyam_R — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:25:33 GMT

Team,

This need more attention to hyland people, they havn't changed their documentation

https://alfresco.github.io/alfresco-ansible-deployment/deployment-guide.html

which shows steps but that are not at all working ( giving each stage different errors which they didn't mentioned anywhere)

If anyone try on fresh virtualbox image ubuntu 22.04 and try to setup alfresco using ansible many challenges are there.

Given document is not at all justify proper steps.

I am trying to setup inventory_local.yml ( local setup )

After fixing many errors, I am getting multiple errors, that variables not defined. Either these project is not updated or this one is not working, please validate your repo

git clone https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-ansible-deployment.git

at every execution of below command it gives some missing variables or ERRORS (Ideally it should work at first attempt as per documentations)

cd ~/alfresco-ansible-deployment
python3.11 -m pipenv run ansible-playbook \
-i /home/ubox01/alfresco-ansible-deployment/inventory_local.yml playbooks/acs.yml \
-e autogen_unsecure_secrets=true

example error :

TASK [java : Validating arguments against arg spec 'main' - Main entrypoint for the java role] *********************************************************************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "{{ java_version.split('+')[0] }}: {{ acs_play_java_version }}: {{ acs_play_default_java_version }}: 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. {{ acs_play_default_java_version }}: 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. {{ acs_play_java_version }}: {{ acs_play_default_java_version }}: 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. {{ acs_play_default_java_version }}: 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. {{ java_version.split('+')[0] }}: {{ acs_play_java_version }}: {{ acs_play_default_java_version }}: 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. {{ acs_play_default_java_version }}: 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. {{ acs_play_java_version }}: {{ acs_play_default_java_version }}: 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. {{ acs_play_default_java_version }}: 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined. 'acs_play_default_java_version' is undefined"}

it gives similar ERROR, not sure why hyland not mention in their documentations.

Please help.

Everyone pointing to link to documentation, that I am aware, but hope someone purely tested it

Re: Ansible setup not working ubuntu 22.04 virtualbox alfresco 23.x

gionn — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:59:47 GMT

Hello,

This should be a classic Ansible headache. Use a relative path for the inventory file instead of an absolute one. With an absolute path, Ansible fails to load all the variables properly, which leads to errors like the ones you are seeing. The documentation you referenced does use a relative path, so following that should fix the problem.

Re: Ansible setup not working ubuntu 22.04 virtualbox alfresco 23.x

Ghanshyam_R — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 05:54:35 GMT

Can you provide me one example, is that to be applied on command or somewhere else?

Re: Ansible setup not working ubuntu 22.04 virtualbox alfresco 23.x

gionn — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:00:09 GMT

It's just:

cd ~/alfresco-ansible-deployment
python3.11 -m pipenv run ansible-playbook \
-i inventory_local.yml playbooks/acs.yml \
-e autogen_unsecure_secrets=true

Re: Ansible setup not working ubuntu 22.04 virtualbox alfresco 23.x

Ghanshyam_R — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:43:34 GMT

Hi Gionn,

Ok I will check that out using relative path, but main issue again is , every time it gives some variable not found error . If you see above error, it says

If we fix next time it will give another variable issue. Is that related to path only?