Questions tagged [ansible]
Use this tag for questions about Ansible, an open-source automation engine, related to using Ansible for topics such as cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, etc.
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Conflicts while building AWX-EE custom image
I'm currently building AWX EE custom image with the latest available but it seems latest versions got some conflicts with pip modules. My custom image was working great in July (awx-ee version 22.X 23....
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Creating a cmd task with all the private ip address details collected from gather_facts
I am running an ansible playbook from my local laptop to AWS connecting on the public IP address. The infra is being spun up by terraform so i dont know the private IP address before hand. I have ...
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Ansible inventory for restart on worker node
I looking to execute a simple reboot via Ansible using its playbook
- name: Worker-node Reboot
hosts: node1
gather_facts: no
remote_user: team
become: true
tasks:
- name: Reboot the ...
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Trying to Create a Docker Ansible lab and Cant SSH
I'm trying to setup a mini ansible lab with docker containers. I have 1 Rockylinux based container as the ansible controller, and then (for right now) 1 Rockylinux based container as the host.
For ...
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How to reload the Firewalld service using Ansible?
I have added some rules to firewalld on CentOS via Ansible. But I need to reload the firewalld daemon for the service to work properly and permanently. Is there a way to do this in Ansible?
Here is my ...
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How to set up an "always/finally" node in an Ansible workflow template?
I have an Ansible Automation Platform workflow template and I want to add a job to report the completion status of the template to a REST API, whether it fails or not--similar to the Finally section ...
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get no debug on why my role is not triggered from my ansible playbook
I have a Vagrant infra to test ansible roles.
Here is my playbook
luis@spinoza:~/proj/g/infra/mz_devops/vagrant/deb11$ more tests/playbook_test_doc.yml
---
- name: Debug role path content
hosts: all
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Is there an ansible command to configure a vmware host to synchronize time with the host?
I've been searching the docs for a bit, but is there a way in ansible - either the rest api or the built-in api - for vcenter to configure a host that has vmware tools installed to synchronize its ...
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Is there a way to declare global(?) variables inside an ansible task?
I have an Ansible playbook, this playbook has a role on it, this role is configured to run only on 2 hosts:
yaml
- hosts: node1,orchestrator1
gather_facts: True
any_errors_fatal: True
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Ansible Connecting to remote Docker container over SSH
I have the following situation: I have a remote server that runs docker with a Postgres container. The Postgres instance is only reachable through a docker network, not directly from the remote server....
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Identifying worker nodes from Ansible inventory group which are not yet joined to k8s cluster using ansible.builtin.regex_search and regex_replace
I am using Ansible to configure a k8s cluster with several nodes. I have a playbook which checks if a variable representing the kubeadm join command has already been defined. If it has not, it ...
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How can I log every command for which an Ansible playbook uses elevated permissions?
I have an Ansible playbook that runs against a Linux target host and uses become to gain elevated permissions for those actions that require it.
For auditing purposes, I need a list of all the Unix ...
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how to run powershell script as windows administrator user using ansible
i want to run a power shell script on remote windows machine. The PowerShell script will install software on C drive. The user which used to login is already in administrator group.
But when the ...
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Why doesn't ansible.builtin.lineinfile behave as expected in this particular task?
I'm attempting to update /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt on a few Raspberry Pis to enable cgroup support. Seemed a good fit for ansible.builtin.lineinfile.
The existing contents of /boot/firmware/cmdline....
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why does my Ansible playbook throw "Found existing installation: requests 2.25.1\n\n:stderr:ERROR: Cannot uninstall requests 2.25.1"?
I'm trying to run an ansible playbook that installs docker and docker-compose and runs a compose file on a ec2 t2.micro.
To use the docker modules in ansible, I need to have docker and docker-compose ...
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Unable to create a project with MANUAL as source in AWX
I have followed the instructions to install AWX from this site.
https://computingforgeeks.com/install-and-configure-ansible-awx-on-centos/
But I'm unable to create manual SCM project on new project on ...
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ansible_become has no effect despite the ability to execute sudo on GCP hosts
Say I want to execute the following command on target hosts (deployed on GCP): ansible all -a "head -1 /etc/shadow".
The command demands the root access. With the default Ansible ...
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Run dependencies only once in muliple plays in Ansible
I have a collection of roles that all depend on a common role:
# roleA/meta/main.yaml
dependencies:
- role: common
# roleB/meta/main.yaml
dependencies:
- role: common
# roleC/meta/main.yaml
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Use an asymmetric cypher to secure Ansible vault
I'm trying to develop a Playbook which must handle sensitive user data (SSH keys, Registry credentials, etc.).
Only a user and the Ansible controller can see the data associated with that same user.
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Ansible role depend on other roles
I have a role, foo that installs a file {{ foo_path }} that's defined in roles/defaults/main.yml.
I have a second role, bar that depends on that file being there. I could put foo in the roles/meta/...
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Update apt cache from ansible when user is different from root
I have the following Dockerfile I'm using to test my ansible playbook.
FROM ubuntu
ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y git software-properties-common ansible
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Use ansible to create GitHub repository with README
We use Ansible to automatically setup Kubernetes clusters.
KPT https://kpt.dev/ is further used to deploy config files to pods in these clusters.
In this process we need to create new GitHub ...
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Is there a way to include a role once?
Suppose there is a relatively basic role that is a prerequisite for other roles, but not basic enough to be just included everywhere. The dependent roles could use ansible.builtin.include_rule, but ...
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Using a different Python version in AWX
I updated a recent playbook module that says I need to use at least Python version 3.8. I run this playbook on our AWX controller. When I run the cmd module and do a "which python3" I get ...
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Why is Ansible task getting stuck for so long?
I'm new to Ansible, I've made a playbook with only two tasks as shown below:
- name: Installing Kubernetes for the master node
connection: ssh
hosts: x.x.x.x
become_method: su
tasks:
- ...
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How to manage ports using proxycommand and ansible
Sometimes when I'm using ansible against a fairly large number of hosts (around 100) about 3-5 of them jump to a completely different host. These devices are all connected via proxycommand using ...
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How to define rollback or rescue in ansible folder structure?
I would like to define rescue or rollback executions within my Ansible structure. I am using this recommended structure:
roles
rolename
files
tasks
templates
handlers
...
I know ...
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ansible action plugin execute some modules once
I stumbled across following problem creating custom python ansbile action plugin: how to execute some modules once (i know in yaml it is possible to set run_once and delegate_to)?
For example having ...
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Unable to install Jenkins plugin via ansible
I've been trying to use ansible to install Jenkins and then once Jenkins has been installed, use the jenkins_plugin module to install the build-pipeline-plugin into it.
Here's my code (also hosted on ...
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Multiple shell commands not executing with shell module
For some reason this fails:
- name: "Get GPG key from the Jenkins portal"
get_url:
url: https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable/jenkins.io.key
dest: /usr/share/keyrings/jenkins.io.key
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How to Control Ansible Loop or Task Default Output
I am trying to get my playbook to print readable debug output for stat on a number of directories when executing. The below shows the with_items and loop way and both work but the real problem is the ...
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Should I turn off copilot for text files containing secrets?
I use VSCode and have recently started using GitHub Copilot for my projects (programming and devops related). I understand that Copilot will send parts of my text to a remote server to get suggestions ...
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Why is ansible loop adding square brackets ("[]") into my role?
I'm writing a role where I need to iterate over a list using the loop option. I'm using the ZFS module aisbergg.zfs.
The role:
- hosts: localhost
vars:
zfs_pool_name: tank
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Ansible Tower / AWX - Job Execution when Instance Fails / becomes unavailable
I have queries on the Ansible Tower/ AWX job execution. While a playbook is under execution. Let's assume this is a lengthy list of tasks and below are the two scenario. This is more on towards ...
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Where does Ansible DSL get translated to either Powershell or Python?
When running Ansible scripts, where does the translation from Ansible DSL to Python(Linux) or Powershell(Windows) happen? I assume this is on the Ansible node, that is, where the Ansible command is ...
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How to verify the time zone change is correct on AWS EC2 using Ansible?
We can use the following code to set a new timezone on AWS EC2 using Ansible.
---
- hosts: linuxservers proxmoxservers
remote_user: ansible
become: yes
tasks:
- name: 'Set timezone to Buenos ...
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Ansible Unsupported Parameters for using handler
I'm trying to run a ansible task but I keep getting an error.
This is the play I want to run:
- name: use of handlers
hosts: all
tasks:
- name: install packages
yum:
name: httpd
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ansible win_copy cannot copy src file as it does not exist
I am trying to run a molecule test where it is supposed to create a VM and copy a binary from network UNC path to the VM but somehow it is failing with the below mentioned error. This is what the task ...
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Ansible: How to get hostname without domain name?
How to get value from /etc/hostname ignoring domain name. For example, /etc/hostname says "client.test.dom" and I need to get "client".
I have tried "{{ ansible_nodename | ...
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How to lock a user using ansible?
Given a username, if that user exists, lock it, otherwise keep it missing.
The most likely module is ansible.builtin.user. There passing password: "*" and shell: "/usr/sbin/nologin"...
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How to create, but not overwrite, a file and manage its permissions with ansible?
The task seems simple. If the file does not exist, create it, otherwise retain the file and its content. In both cases, apply permissions (owner, group, mode).
The most obvious candidate to this task ...
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Unable to login as `ubuntu` user on ec2 instance spawned from auto scaling group
Utilizing Ansible AWS modules, I'm creating an AMI from an existing EC2 instance where I am able to ssh with both my user and default account (ubuntu). After the AMI is in a ready state, I then create ...
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Is there a way to exclusively manage multiple ssh keys with differing per-key options using ansible?
Ansible provides a ansible.builtin.authorized_key module which provides a lot of functionality:
You can set exclusive: true to delete all other keys.
You can set key_options: ....
You can list ...
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What is a good strategy to prevent Ansible playbook runs against the wrong hosts? [duplicate]
It is too easy to run playbooks on the wrong hosts in Ansible
I know the best practice would be to use --limit to make sure you can not select the wrong host. I do not trust --limit to ensure Ansible ...
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Ansible - Configuring Supermicro servers via Redfish API
I plan to configure Supermicro servers via the Redfish API. Ansible provides the following modules for the Redfish API:
community.general.redfish_command
community.general.redfish_config
Supermicro ...
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Ansible jinja2 if/elif/else construct not working anymore
I am using a jinja2 template for creating several files. Those differ a bit dependent on a set variable.
Here's the code:
{% if production_env == "prod" or "stage" %}
password: &...
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Implementing the right conditions for a yum command for centos5 in Ansible
I'm currently working with a centos5 host and I have to install some packages with yum.
Unfortunately, as far as I know, centos5 doesn't support Ansible's yum module, since it requires python2 ...
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ansible fatal: "sudo: a password is required", even after priveleges are escalated
while trying to setup a remote machine using ansible, I am running into the following issue:
FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "sudo: a password is required\n&...
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Creating a hostgroup from a super-set of hosts
I have two host files with different hosts, hostGroups and super-set in each file like below.
/ets/hostFiles/TestBoxes
[TestBox:children]
groupA
groupB
[groupA]
...
...
[groupB]
...
...
/ets/...
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Ansible / Jinja2 Unexpected templating type error
I am trying to take a dictionary from one or more async tasks "register: task_variable" then collecting it as a list based on its id's and running a wait task using async_status on the ...
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