Ansible Role: MySQL unable to read configuration file

Question

I've received the following error.

'msg': 'AnsibleError: unable to read /the-ansibles/roles/mysql/templates/etc_mysql_my.cnf.j2', 'failed': True

I tried the following playbook configure.yml.

# file: roles/mysql/tasks/configure.yml
---
- hosts: test
  remote_user: root
  tasks:
   - name: MySQL | Update the my.cnf
     action: template src=/the-ansibles/roles/mysql/templates/etc_mysql_my.cnf.j2 dest=/etc/mysql/my.cnf owner=root group=root mode=0644
     notify:
       - restart mysql
`
while executimg this by this command: ansible-playbook configure.yml
the following error appears.
>>>>>
fatal: [test] => {'msg': 'AnsibleError: unable to read /the-ansibles/roles/mysql/templates/etc_mysql_my.cnf.j2', 'failed': True}
fatal: [test] => {'msg': 'AnsibleError: unable to read /the-ansibles/roles/mysql/templates/etc_mysql_my.cnf.j2', 'failed': True}

What is wrong with my configuration?

Answer 1

Does the file /the-ansibles/roles/mysql/templates/etc_mysql_my.cnf.j2 exist on the machine that ansible is running from?

Templated files need to be on the local machine not the remote.