Flashblade & Ansible collection
Hello community, We are facing some issues with our FlashBlade when provisioning policies with Ansible. We have updated all the components (py-pure-client and the collection), and we are failing on a simple policy deployment. - name: Test purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy: name: "filesystem_export_policy" enabled: True policy_type: "nfs" at: True client: "mynfsexport.flashblade.local" secure: True security: "sys" permission: "rw" access: "no-squash" fb_url: "{{ fb_host }}" api_token: "{{ fb_api_token }}" The complete stack trace is : The full traceback is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py", line 107, in <module> _ansiballz_main() File "/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py", line 99, in _ansiballz_main invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS) File "/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py", line 47, in invoke_module runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible_collections.purestorage.flashblade.plugins.modules.purefb_policy', init_globals=dict(_module_fqn='ansible_collections.purestorage.flashblade.plugins.modules.purefb_policy', _modlib_path=modlib_path), File "<frozen runpy>", line 226, in run_module File "<frozen runpy>", line 98, in _run_module_code File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code File "/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py", line 4233, in <module> File "/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py", line 4008, in main File "/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py", line 2392, in update_nfs_policy AttributeError: 'ErrorResponse' object has no attribute 'items' fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => { "changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py\", line 107, in <module>\n _ansiballz_main()\n File \"/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py\", line 99, in _ansiballz_main\n invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)\n File \"/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py\", line 47, in invoke_module\n runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible_collections.purestorage.flashblade.plugins.modules.purefb_policy', init_globals=dict(_module_fqn='ansible_collections.purestorage.flashblade.plugins.modules.purefb_policy', _modlib_path=modlib_path),\n File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 226, in run_module\n File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 98, in _run_module_code\n File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 88, in _run_code\n File \"/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py\", line 4233, in <module>\n File \"/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py\", line 4008, in main\n File \"/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py\", line 2392, in update_nfs_policy\nAttributeError: 'ErrorResponse' object has no attribute 'items'\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE: No start of json char found\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1 } If the policy is already set, the playbook runs perfectly fine. The problem occurs when a new policy is injected. However, we have to install the collection from GitHub. It seems that the artifact built and installed by Ansible Galaxy is not correct. Some commits are not propagated. For example, with the FlashBlade collection 1.24 (installed from Galaxy), we have: >>> from pypureclient.flashblade import ( ... PolicyRuleObjectAccessCondition, ... PolicyRuleObjectAccessPost, ... PolicyRuleObjectAccess, ... NfsExportPolicy, ... NfsExportPolicyRule, ... Policy, ... PolicyPatch, ... PolicyRule, ... SmbSharePolicyRule, ... SmbSharePolicy, ... SmbClientPolicyRule, ... SmbClientPolicy, ... ObjectStoreAccessPolicyPost, ... NetworkAccessPolicy, ... NetworkAccessPolicyRule, ... WormDataPolicy, ... ) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/user/conda/envs/ansible/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pypureclient/flashblade/__init__.py", line 40, in __getattr__ raise ImportError(f'module {__package__} has no attribute {name}') ImportError: module pypureclient.flashblade has no attribute PolicyPatch We have compared the archive from GitHub and there are many differences with the upstream collection code. To help, find my my env package : Package Version ----------------- ----------- annotated-types 0.7.0 ansible-core 2.18.5 bcrypt 5.0.0 certifi 2026.4.22 cffi 2.0.0 cryptography 44.0.0 dnspython 2.8.0 invoke 3.0.3 Jinja2 3.1.4 MarkupSafe 2.1.1 packaging 24.1 paramiko 5.0.0 pip 24.2 py-pure-client 1.88.0 pycparser 2.22 pydantic 2.13.4 pydantic_core 2.46.4 PyJWT 2.12.1 PyNaCl 1.6.2 python-dateutil 2.9.0.post0 PyYAML 6.0.2 resolvelib 1.0.1 setuptools 75.8.2 six 1.17.0 typing_extensions 4.15.0 typing-inspection 0.4.2 urllib3 2.7.0 wheel 0.45.0 And our flashblades are running the Purity//FB 4.6.9. If anyone has a lead to help us get our Ansible back up and running, I thank them in advance. We appreciate your help. Matth
Ask Us Everything about Object Storage
💬 Get ready for our February 2026 edition of Ask Us Everything, this Friday, February 20th at 9 AM Pacific. This month is all about Object Storage. If you have a burning question, feel free to ask it here early and we'll add it to the list to answer tomorrow. Or if we can't get it answered live, our Pure Storage experts can follow up here. Karthik Srinivasan, Flashman​ & dpoorman​ ​ are the experts answering your questions during the conversation and here on the community. See you this Friday! (Oh, and if you haven't registered yet, there's still time!) Or, check out this self-serve resource: Object Storage Webinar EDIT: Thanks for joining in! If you have additional burning questions and comments, leave them in the comments below for the team!Announcing the General Availability of Purity//FB 4.6.6
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