"Cannot find a handler for Task type" in playbooks

[nlegaillart-dri]

Hi all,

We are having some trouble to make playbooks work. However we are able to launch tasks using mco and colt commands.

For instance the apt Puppet module tasks work just fine using command line (mco tasks run apt --action=update -I <Host>), but the following playbook code:

plan playbooks::apt_update (
  Array[String[1]] $hosts
) {
  choria::task("apt",
    "action" => "update",
    "nodes"  => $hosts,
  )
}

fails with the following error:

Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Cannot find a handler for Task type apt (file: ...)

This "Cannot find a handler" error is encountered on every choria::tasks we tried (at least, apt and exec tasks)

Is there something we are missing? It is our first try at playbooks so it could clearly be the case ;-)

Thanks in advance for your help,

--
Nicolas

[ripienaar]

I am guessing you want to run this kind of task? A puppet task? There's an unfortunate collision of terminology but seems like what you want https://choria.io/docs/tasks/usage/#running-a-task-1

[nlegaillart-dri]

Hi R.I,

Yes, this is exactly what we want to achieve. Thank you for the kick answer, and the good pointer: we were not using the right syntax (instead of calling choria::task directly, we have to call choria::run_playbook("choria::tasks::run"...)

Sorry for this rookie question, I think we can close this discussion now!