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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How to test provisioning and configuration in Ansible setup?
Looking at trying to build some resilience into our Ansible setup which deals with provisioning and configuration.
I understand a few methods of testing on the configuration side of things but I'm ...
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ansible AWX is connecting through ssh as root instead of user defined in credential
I'm running ansible 2.6.2 and awx 1.0.7.2 on rhel 7.5. AWX is connecting to my ssh proxy as root instead of the defined Credential user.
My playbook contains the following
become: yes
become_method: ...
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What is Ansible's config equivalent of `--vault-password-file`?
According the help of ansible-playbook one could use --user=REMOTE_USER to define the ssh user, but one could also define ansible_ssh_user: REMOTE_USER in either the host- or group_vars.
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How do I run Ansible Azure playbooks while avoiding storing credentials in files?
Background
We use Ansible to provision and manage Azure infrastructure. At the moment we run Ansible "manually" i.e. we manually execute playbooks for various automated tasks. No CI infrastructure.
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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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Ansible - Handler not found on first attempt
Command run: sudo ansible-playbook site.yml --connection=local
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
ansible 2.5.5
I'm encountering ...
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Ansible - Copy multiple files
I am trying to copy multiple files to the target like so:
tasks:
- name: "Copying files"
copy:
src: files/{{ item }}
dest: /my/folder/
with_items:
- file.txt
The files ...
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Can I create an Azure VM from Ansible with NICs in different resource groups?
I am working on creating an Ansible playbook to
Ensure required network resources for an Azure VM are present, and
Create an Azure VM attached to those resources.
Due to the way the organization ...
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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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A cloud technology with automatic upgrades of my OS-release and web server release?
I desire a cloud technology that will redund my need of using Vagrant to continuously integrate OS release upgrades (say from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 including all software installed by apt-get --- ...
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