How to solve ansible-lint error?

Question

Ansible

Ansible-lint throws the following error when running GitHub Actions:

==> Linting /github/workspace/playbook.yml…
Couldn't parse task at /github/workspace/roles/misc/tasks/configure/configure-debian.yml:2 (conflicting action statements: hostname, __line__

The error appears to be in '<unicode string>': line 2, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

(could not open file to display line))
{ 'hostname': { '__file__': '/github/workspace/roles/misc/tasks/configure/configure-debian.yml',
                '__line__': 4,
                'name': '{{ hostname }}'},
  'name': 'Setting hostname'}

The file itself looks like this:

---
- name: Setting hostname
  hostname:
    name: "{{ hostname }}"

What is wrong here?

Answer 1

{{ hostname }}it is an ansible built-in variable. Try to name the variable differently or redefine something else, like

- name: Setting hostname
  hostname:
    name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"

inventory_hostname is also a built-in variable that takes the value specified in the inventory file.