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Common issues and troubleshooting the LDAP IDP orchestration

Bruce Becker edited this page May 13, 2015 · 2 revisions

Here, we summarise some of the experience in resolving the common issues opened during deployment of the ldap-idp playbook.

Adding Overlays gives an error

(seen in #66, #67, #152 and #218 ; also at ServerFault

  • Symptom: The idp-ldap playbook may die at task ldap | Apply overlays
  • Diagnosis: This is usually due to a missing variable, typically root_password_clear
  • Solution: Add root_password_clear: your_password_here in your group_vars - be sure to encrypt the file before committing it to the repo.