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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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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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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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 fetch all vars files from a directory to generate a combined vars file
What I'm looking for is a task (or tasks) to read whatever .yml files exist in a specified folder and combine them into a file containing all the variables. For example:
pets/steves_pets.yml:
cats:
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Applying ansible playbook to a docker container on a remote host
I have automated the setup of several docker containers with ansible. This works pretty well but there are certain recurring tasks that have to be executed within the docker containers.
It is possible ...
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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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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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How to test production Ansible execution without having to provision target
We use ansible for our day to day operation and so far so good. We have been looking for a way to run local test etc just like chef guys and found molecule that we use with testinfra/vagrant. While I ...
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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 playbook fails on Windows server
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# This is a basic playbook for testing
- hosts: WindowsSandbox
#gather_facts: no
vars:
ansible_remote_tmp: c\temp
remote_tmp: c\temp
tasks:
- win_shell: cd c:\temp
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ansible network automation: log commands all commandes from mutiple plays
Trying to write a script to publish basic configurations for any futur new devices. Also assert compliancy of basic configuration for devices in production.
Trying to gather all the lines executed, on ...
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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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How to keep packages updated and keep in pace with security updates
In a project with multiple vms that run various applications from Wordpress to Django and various other things.
Is there a way or a tool to keep track of the packages that require updates or 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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Ansible/AWS dynamic inventory -- How to create groups based on tags?
I am trying to create custom groups, based on tags. I am using this doc as a reference: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/inventory.html#inventory-plugins
As a baseline, in my aws_ec2....
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How can I check for an installed packaged version on multiple linux hosts?
i need to check more than 100 servers for the snapd package, but I don't like the output at all. I searched all day for different options without luck. Attached is the output of ansible-playbook. Any ...
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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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How Can I Escape Backspace Using Set_Fact In Ansible With Jinja Conditional
I cannot figure out how to escape an HTML closing tag, <\b> in this example, when used inside an Ansible Jinja conditional (ansible 2.9.27 in this case). Using an additional backslash <\\b>...
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How to programmatically generate docker-compose file?
I am writing an Ansible playbook to deploy services to a clustered environment. There are 3 types of hosts (Application, Load balancer, database). Services are deployed via docker-compose on each host ...
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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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Testing for EL with Ansible facts; distribution or os_family?
Sometimes in an Ansible playbook, you'll want to condition running a task on whether or not the distribution is CentOS, RHEL, etc, or if it's something else. A very common example is when a package is ...
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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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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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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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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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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 use facts from one host to perform actions on another host?
In Ansible I'm trying to generate a variable from a task on one host and then use the variable to do something to another host. Specifically, I'm trying to create a Kubernetes cluster - On the control ...
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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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Using `dig` Ansible module?
I am trying to look up the IPv4 address (a single one, which I will assert on!) for a given name using Ansible and use that as a fact "down the line".
An MWE looks like this:
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# vim: set ...
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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: 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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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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Ansible temp dir change
Ansible version 2.9.2
Is it possible to change ansible temp dir for one playbook only?
I have VMs with r/o root. So, the playbook fails.
Even if I run my playbook under root user on target VM it can'...
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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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ansible filter debug output
I have the following output resulted from a shell command which is run on ansible on every host from my inventory:
TASK [debug]
ok: [10.240.22.44] => {
"msg": {
"changed": true,
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Passing variables between scripts in a Jenkins pipeline
I have a declarative Jenkins pipeline that looks like the following:
pipeline{
agent {
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}
stages {
stage("Provision EC2 Instance and Set ENV Variable"){
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Ansible: Exclude a parameter if variable is not set
Is there a way to exclude a parameter entirely if a variable is not set? I do not want to use a default value for this, I simply do not way the parameter referenced at all.
For example,
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- name: ...
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ansible: difference between a variable and a fact
While I'm using Ansible for quite some time, I'm not sure I really understand the differences between a variable and a fact.
Would it be any difference doing
- set_fact:
nginx_ssl: /etc/nginx/ssl
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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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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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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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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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Why can't my playbook find the community.docker modules
I am trying to write a playbook that will download a docker image and run it on a group of servers.
I have a python 3.6 virtualenv created and installed ansible into it.
I then ran:
ansible-galaxy ...
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Ansible no user $HOME by default - so how do I run commands
I have thousands of servers that, by default, for security and space do not create a $HOME when you ssh in.
This seems to be posing a problem for Ansible as it keeps trying to chdir to home that does ...
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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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Why does Ansible ignore tasks after failing?
My ansible playbook has a task named 'Copy the build script to the system and run it'. It is prone to errors, so I've created a debug task to debug it:
- name: Copy the build script to the system and ...
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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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