I am showing my task schema — – name: Ensure directory exists for local self-signed TLS certs. file: path: "{{ certificate_dir }}/{{ server_hostname }}" state: directory – name: Generate an OpenSSL private key. community.crypto.x509_certificate: path: "{{ certificate_dir }}/{{ server_hostname }}/privkey.pem" privatekey_path: "{{ certificate_dir }}/{{ server_hostname }}/privkey.pem" provider: selfsigned When I run playbook I got TASK… Read More How to generate a Self Signed OpenSSL certificate with Ansible playbooks? private key file does not exist

When I run the following command from the command line ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_OK_HOSTS=true ansible-playbook -i my_inventory.yaml myplaybook.yaml –tag my_tag then everything works fine, however if I try to do so from a python script using subprocess.call, it fails with "No such file or directory: ‘ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_OK_HOSTS=true’ What is the difference and how to fix it please?? From within… Read More How to override ansible.cfg variable from a subprocess.call from a python script?

My variable info has below value. (Actual case has huge data). I am trying to search for specific word XYZ_data_001 and get the size information, which is after the pattern physical disk, XYZ_data_001 file system device, special, dsync off, directio on, physical disk, 16384.00 MB, Free: 0.00 MB 2 0 6 0 8388607 XYZ_data_002 file… Read More How to search and match pattern to get a value in ansible

Is it possible to execute a task in Ansible only if at least one task in a specific block was changed? So, something like this: – name: Tasks block block: – name: Task 1 # … – name: Task 2 # … – name: Task 3 # … – name: Task 4 # … -… Read More Check if any task in block changed?

I’m trying to create a loop that pulls data from a dictionary using Ansible and create resources (e.g. Group), based on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/plugins/lookup/dict.html # main.yaml – name: ‘Linux | Adding groups’ ansible.builtin.group: name: "{{ item.key }}" state: "{{ item.value.state }}" gid: "{{ item.value.gid }}" system: False loop: "{{ lookup(‘dict’, groups) }}" # vars.yaml groups: my_group: state:… Read More Looping on a dictionary with Ansible

When debugging an Ansible playbook, I occasionally need to use verbose mode to debug the connection itself, like in this call: ansible-playbook -vvvv -i inventories/whatever playbook_under_test.yml This will, among the debug info from Ansible itself, also output everything that SSH -vvvv would print. However, on the terminal, all newlines and linefeeds from this SSH debug… Read More Ansible does not expand newline and linefeed characters in verbose SSH output

The API is supposed to return a 10 letter string and using curl command on the API URL returns the correct string. The Ansible uri module is returning a status message. – name: Get variable output from api uri: url: "http://apiurl" register: my_variable – name: Print my_variable debug: msg: "Value of the variable is {{… Read More Ansible 'uri' module: How to return content from API?

I’ve created a role which stores the unreachable hosts in a variable: – block: – set_fact: unreachable_hosts: "{{ ansible_play_hosts_all|difference(ansible_play_hosts) }}" – debug: var: unreachable_hosts run_once: true Depending on the amount of unreachable hosts this returns something like this: "unreachable_hosts": [ "server001", "server003" ] In another role I’m creating an HTML file with Jinja2 template. In… Read More How to manipulate list variable in Jinja2 template?

Is there a way to use the value of one Ansible variable as the name of another variable so I can extract a value from its list? host_vars: this: does: walk says: hi that: does: run says: hello On the CLI when I run the playbook, I add -e="thing=this". In the playbook, I’ve tried all… Read More Use value of CLI variable as the name of a host_vars variable?

I am trying to run this script: /usr/share/postgresql-common/pgdg/apt.postgresql.org.sh When I run it without Ansible I get this: This script will enable the PostgreSQL APT repository on apt.postgresql.org on your system. The distribution codename used will be focal-pgdg. Press Enter to continue, or Ctrl-C to abort. I tried this and some other variations on this. -… Read More Ansible Simulate "Press Enter" for shell script