Questions tagged [ansible]
Ansible is an IT automation tool. Use this tag for questions regarding the Ansible IT automation tools.
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Disable Quick Edit PowerShell/cmd prompt
I've tried to disable quickedit through regedit HKCU:\Console QuickEdit = "0" the value changes in the registry but nothing happens.
I know I can right-click edit properties but I need to find the ...
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Trouble uninstalling a program with ansible win_shell
The program in question is gvim.
it works perfectly when i log onto powershell and execute this command:
`& "C:\program files\vim\vim81\uninstall-gui.exe" /S
but when i do it in ansible with ...
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Kubespray multi master config failed with below output
ailed: [node1] (item=apiserver) => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["/usr/local/bin/kubeadm", "init", "phase", "certs", "apiserver", "--config=/etc/kubernetes/kubeadm-config.yaml"], "delta": "0:00:00....
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ansible playbook when condition for replay
is there any option for the replay the play in the playbook? I want to write ansible playbook like below. I want to run play2 if any error in the play1_result and after running play1 if play2 is a ...
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Ansible - ios_vlan unable to run any commands that require privilege mode
I've been testing ansible for some simple network automation and it seems I'm unable to complete even some simple tasks. I'm having an issue where any commands that require enable mode are failing. ...
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Ansible failing to SSH with password instead of Key
I am using ansible to try and set up a server. At the moment the server has a root user who authenticates with a password (no ssh key required). If I ssh manually from my command line I am prompted ...
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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?
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Ansible via Vagrant Provisioner not Working with `become` (or `sudo`)
How can Ansible be used via Vagrant's ansible provider while working with actions that become a superuser? Every attempt I've made so far doesn't work for quite inexplicable reasons.
The scenario is ...
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Uniting Putty with WSL-Ansible under the same private key and passphrase
In my PC I use Windows 10 home with WSL-Ubuntu (16.04 - xenial) and Ansible.
I often rent IaaS machines and SSH into them via Putty from Win 10 and all of my IaaS machines are usually orchestrated, ...
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Why do tabs in YAML work some but not at all times?
We've used tab-characters in some of YAML-files here:
host: "foo"
port: 8011
p: "bar"
For some reason, the same version of Ansible running the same playbook works just fine with these files ...
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Ansible hangs after parsing inventory
I'm using Ansible locally to configure my own machine and today (I haven't run the playbooks in a while) it all of a sudden started just hanging. I can't seem to run any playbooks at all, at least not ...
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to hide password from the output
I'm passing the password to my sudo in ansible playbook like:
echo <password> | sudo -S su - <username>
It's working fine. But the problem here is in my output the password is visible. ...
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How to count the number of elements in an array in Ansible?
An array is generated in Ansible from shell command output, it is similar to below:
foo: [value0, value1, value2, value3]
Now depending on output of the shell command, the number of elements of foo ...
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Possible to stop ansible and run an autoit script non-silent?
I have a vast ansible script i run. But there are some things I need to do manually but can do they via autoIt. Is there a way to run win_shell or win_command so that ansible let's autoIt run in the ...
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Ansible command not working on Cygwin
I have configured Cygwin on Windows Server, but the below command is not showing any error.
How I can solve the problem?
$ ansible all -m ping
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Ansible Regexp groups, patterns or something else?
I have to use ansible to manage a few DNS zones.
We use a playbook and some templates without any issue. However, the serial number of the zone(s) is manually modified by the end users and a lot of ...
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Ansible: replace cannot find a locally existing file
I am trying to replace a single string in a configuration file test.conf using Ansible.
Those are the two tasks of my role:
- name: Check for conf locally
local_action: stat path="{{ role_path }}/...
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How to interpret the iptable rule specified in the description?
I am new to iptables and trying to learn the same. What does --set in this iptable rule mean?
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -M recent --name ssh -p tcp --dport 22 --set
Can someone explain this ...
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How to securely pass personal credentials to ansible_local?
My Vagrantfile contains this:
config.vm.provision "ansible_local" do |ansible|
ansible.playbook = "setup.yml"
ansible.vault_password_file = "vault_pass"
end
The vault is secured with a team-wide ...
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No Ansible config file or /etc/ansible directory after trying pip and yum install
So I have been trying to install Ansible for some server management however it seems that yum and pip both don't want to co-operate:
I tried a yum install which refuses to work because it cant seem ...
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Changing Registry Settings with Ansible Windows 10
I've been trying to disable a microphone via automation for a few days now. I'm using Ansible and attempting to change the registry setting. It's a simple thing changing from 10000000 to 10000001 or ...
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Java memory allocation error inside a Docker container when host machine is running Alpine Linux
I want to run Jenkins in a Container where my host machine is running Alpine Linux.
I have an Ansible playbook that starts the Jenkins container. However, the container exits as soon as it starts. I ...
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Cannot add or change users with ansible on remote ubuntu machines
I'm testing ansible and using a playbook to create a user on a remote machine
but i keep getting the error FAILED! "useradd: permision denied" "useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd"
Will i need to ...
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Ansible ssh connection to remote machine fails with the following error, how do we tweek it to work
when Ansible playbook tries to connect to the (Tomcat server) VM machine which is in the same subnet, it gives the following error:
Step1: ssh command the one which ansible playbook uses:
ssh -C -...
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Provisioning browser extensions on Linux
I've always struggled with getting new Linux systems set up to my preferred specifications, and I've finally started to look into solutions for provisioning, saving dotfiles in git, etc. There's a lot ...
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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:
#...<...
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Does ansible gather facts about local host OS (not a remote one)
I am writing the role which includes some tasks to be executed on local machine using dedicate_to: localhost statements.
When gathering facts, ansible registers some variables about the remote host (...
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Ansible picking wrong variable configuration when host belongs to several host groups
I have a server infra which belongs to two different host groups. For each host group, I have settings in group_vars/<host-group>.yml:
# in group_vars/develop.yml
user_name: "develop"
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And:
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No package matching 'docker-ce' is available with ansible
On ubuntu 18.04 I am running this ansible (version 2.5.1) role:
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- name: Add Docker apt repository key.
apt_key:
url: "https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg"
state: present
- ...
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ansible: why it looks for vultr.ini file?
I have created the following playbook to create a vultr machine. I'm using the vultr module of ansible and have put all the necessary parameters;
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# Ansible Blocks
- hosts: 127.0.0.1
# ...
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Managing FreeBSD host with Ansible fails: Shared object \“libdl.so.1\” not found, required by \“python\”\r\n
Management of FreeBSD on Raspberry pi 3 (FreeBSD-aarch64-12.0-GENERIC-320146M from RaspBSD project - http://www.raspbsd.org/) fails.
Control host is MacOS 10.13.2.
python is successfully installed ...
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Configuration and automation management on WIndows IoT ARM processor (Puppet, Ansible,… )
I have a couple of Windows IoT board to configure and I would like to use a configuration manager such as Puppet or Ansible. It is using an ARM processor and for now all the configuration agents I ...
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Ansible Playbook Permission
I have one host abc.com where I have downloaded playbooks from GitHub.
There are multiple users which can connect to abc.com but I want to restrict the playbook execution for specific user X.
So that ...
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Ansible inventory hierarchy
I want make an inventory file for Ansible as sorting-independent. There is an example below for this file:
[houston:children]
hst-lin
hst-win
[hst-lin:children]
hst-lin-prod
hst-lin-test
[hst-win:...
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Is There An Ansible Task To Create Services
Ansible has a task to ensure services (systemd in this case) are started or stopped etc.
However, is there a task to create the service?
Right now I am copying a template to the correct directory ...
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Python not available in Ubuntu xenial?
I have just provisioned a Xenial machine with vagrant (based on xenial64-20180228.1.0-virtualbox.box). In my host system I have python:
» lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: ...
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How to configure custom ceph OSD options in ceph-ansible?
Currently I'm deploying a ceph cluster on a few ARM-based machines, namely the HC2 from ODROID equipped with 4 TB WD Red Drives. I also found an article from WD labs, doing the same task at large ...
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Ansible installed on Mac with success message but not found
I have been trying to install ansible from long time. It is giving success message when use below command.
Anupams-MacBook-Pro-2:bin anupamsri$ sudo pip install ansible
The directory /Users/...
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Setup a Static IP Addressed Linux network oin Parallels
Our requirement is to have static IPS in our parallel machines for us not to change our SSH hosts for in Ansible.
In the Parallels, virtual machine settings are done for Linux.
I am using a Host-Only ...
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overriding options in the ansible config
In my previous question, I discovered that I can put options into a local ansible.cfg file. But can I override them?
I have an ansible.cfg file that contains
[defaults]
vault_password_file = /home/...
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Combine ansible-vault with prompted variables?
The problem I have right now is that, to use ansible-vault encrypted strings, I need to specify on the command line --vault-id=foo@prompt .
I don't use encrypted strings very often, so I'd rather ...
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How to apply a variable to a host group when the groups overlap
I'm trying to set up a (hopefully) simple Ansible script to check out a git branch. There are three environments: dev, qa, and live. Each spans two hosts. But dev and qa use the same hosts, just ...
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Ansible error: Unable to add user to already existing group
I am unable to add user to an already existing group. After executing, on verifying from /etc/groups I can see that user is not added. I am new to Ansible. Could anyone help?
This is the script I am ...
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How to better secure vagrant virtual machines and delete vagrant user
I am trying to use vagrant as a way of provisioning virtual machines (setting IP addresses, resources, etc) but I am also trying to decouple vagrant's dependency on ansible i.e. I just want to use ...
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Install Ansible in Windows, using Git-bash
I am trying to install the Ansible open source automation platform on Windows. There are many guides out there for how to install Ansible using Cygwin (eg. 1, 2).
However, I already have Git-Bash ...
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Ansible playbook to deploy to new server and remove from others
I'm toying with the idea of having a playbook that runs a certain task when a server is in a group and another task when it is not in a group.
Say I have office1 with all servers and I have a primary ...
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Using templates/jinja2 filter in Ansible playbook to conditionally execute certain
I am creating a playbook for network device orchestration. I need to execute certain commands depending on the boolean vars input i receive.
Is it it possible to use the boolean input to populate ...
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Ansible not working with sudo
I am trying to use ansible, but I seem to not be able to get it to work with sudo. I have minimised the problem to this:
This does not work:
ansible localhost --ask-become-pass -m shell -a "cat /...
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Can I change the Ansible target in-flight?
I run KVM virtual machines on bare metal hosts. To spin up new VMs, I would:
virt-clone a template
virt-sysprep the clone to make some basic changes
Start the cloned VM
Use Ansible for further ...
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Can people automate Windows apps installation?
I understand a Linux application installation can be automated through a script, but I am not so sure if this is true in Windows world. Here I have specific scenario.
I want to install Word onto a ...
