Error saying Extraneous options or arguments when trying to run an ansible playbook

Question

Hey, I'm very new to ansible. I tried running a simple ansible playbook using the following command but it failed and gave me an error instead.

ansible playbook auto.yml

error:

Usage: ansible <host-pattern> [options]
Define and run a single task 'playbook' against a set of hostsERROR! Extraneous options or arguments

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Hey @Nisha, You are using the wrong command to execute your playbook.

Use the following syntax:

ansible-playbook -i hosts playbookname.yml

or 

ansible-playbook playbook-name.yml

Answer 2

ERROR! Extraneous options or arguments

Comments

hey, Sariak's solution did not work?