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Questions tagged [ansible]
263 questions
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Ansible playbook to determine OS release
I'm simply trying to check the version of ubuntu on all my servers. Based on this question I see that ansible has a ansible_distribution_version but this playbook does not show how I would simply just have it print out the ubuntu version, ie ubuntu…
nadermx
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How to set a default ssh user for all hosts in Ansible?
Ansible version 2.1
I have an inventory file hosts
[nodes]
host1
host2
...
And a simple playbook site.yml
---
- hosts: all
tasks:
- include: tasks/main.yml
If I just start the play,
ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml -vvvv
I get this error…
Howard Lee
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What is the significance of an Ansible task reporting that something has changed?
I have a task that checks if my process is listening on port 8080 and only when the exit code is not zero, would I run fail with a message.
When the service is running, it reports that the status has changed. I want it to say ok. What does a changed…
socgen hacker
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14
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Ansible task to confirm if a process is running
Ansible 2.1
In the playbook, I started a process:
- name: Start Automation Agent, and enable start on boot
service: name=mongodb-mms-automation-agent state=started enabled=yes
From play recap, it appears the process has successfully started.
TASK…
Howard Lee
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9
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4 answers
Ansible command-task runs into "Exec format error"
I wrote this ansible task to run a process on a remote vagrant box. (Well, actually the ansible file itself is much longer, but this is a reproducer that only runs the start script.)
---
- hosts: myappname_server
vars_files:
-…
SadBunny
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ansible: silently skip unreachable hosts
We use ansible to configure some hosts, including IP configuration. We do not want to use a DHCP server. Sometimes we add new hosts to the network.
Those new hosts are in one ip address range and the existing production hosts are in another. We just…
icehawk
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Writing toml sections with ansible
I have an Ansible setup for "Gitlab Runners". These use toml as configuration format
[[runners]]
name = "gitlab-runner-1"
url = "https://example.com"
token = "x"
executor = "docker"
[runners.custom_build_dir]
[runners.cache]
…
madflow
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ansible: execute local_action only once while running playbook against a group of hosts (multiple managed hosts)
Is it possible in ansible to make local_action task being run ONLY once while running playbook against a group of hosts?
Here is the problem:
hosts:
- macbooks
- localhost
tasks:
#......#
- local_action: command
…
drew1kun
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Ansible reports "permission denied" when issuing command on remote host
Ansible 2.1
Ansible host: Ubuntu 16.04
Remote host: CentOS 6.5
I'm quite new to Ansible. I have a simple ansible project:
├── hosts
├── roles
│ └── setup
│ ├── defaults
│ │ └── main.yml
│ ├── tasks
│ │ └── main.yml
│ …
Howard Lee
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Can't make Ansible to wait for a server to reboot and continue playbook to work
I am creating a playbook to install a software and I need to restart the server int he middle of the playbook.
I need my Ansible host to wait till the server is back and execute the rest of my tasks but this is not happenning.
These are my Ansible…
masber
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How to remove items from an ansible list?
In my Ansible playbook, I need to change permissions on a lot of files, but a few subdirectories need read-write permissions, while most need read-only. Following another suggestion from superuser, I have this solution:
- name: A few directories…
Kevin Keane
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Run ansible playbook on specified host and group?
Let's suppose that we have host group dev with corresponding group vars.
[dev]
host1
host2
How to run ansible playbook with a host3 that is not in group dev using CLI?
3
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2 answers
Ansible - ignore whitespace differences in lineinfile
I am starting to look into using ansible for maintaining a set of servers. I have ran into a difficulty with lineinfile. I am setting up rsyslog and want to make sure a few lines are in the /etc/rsyslog.conf:
- name: set up rsyslog
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MortenSickel
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Ansible installation on Windows 10 giving following error
Please someone suggest me how to install Ansible on Windows 10 and I've tried to do the same from GIT Bash that didn't help.
Error Log:
copying lib\ansible\galaxy\data\network\tests\inventory -> build\lib\ansible\galaxy\data\network\tests
…
info2m
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Ansible : Configuring a Windows Host
I'm trying to set a windows Host through a VM using mac M1 but I'm having the following issue :
UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to create temporary directory. In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have…
Hugues
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