I want to run a playbook containing some roles on multiple host groups I create dynamically with the group_by module. I'm able to do it like the example below (ping replacing my actual role). I w...

How can I pass a relative path so that Ansible can copy files from node/keys and copy them to a server? The playbook is ansible/playbook. My directory structure is: ├── ansible │   ├── inventory │ ...

I have a dummy doubt that keeps me stuck for a long time. I have a very banal inventory file with hosts and variables: [lb] 10.112.84.122 [tomcat] 10.112.84.124 [jboss5] 10.112.84.122 ... [tes...

I am trying to get started with Ansible to provision my Vagrantbox, but I can’t figure out how to deal with host files. According to the documentation the should be storred in /etc/ansible/hosts, ...

I am trying to find whether particular director exists in ansible, if not, create the one..The problem i am facing here is that the below code should not create a /var/tmp/directory, but it creates...

I have a dynamic ansible inventory which uses the aws_ec2 module. It works quite well, generally. However, there is one issue. I've tried several times to create groups using the 'groups:' keyword,...

We have a set of servers shared between different instances of an application and would like the list of them to be a separate file, with other -- instance-specific inventories -- including it. (I...

I am new to Ansible and I am trying to create an Ansible Playbook, which makes a backup of directories from different hosts to the control server (which is the same machine where Ansible is invoked...

I have defined the nginx_upstreams variable in a different role that in turn uses the geerlingguy.nginx role and I have also specified the "name", "strategy" and the "servers", but when I run this ...

I'm trying to run my Ansible playbook on a remote server using a provided ssh key. I have added the following configuration to my inventory file: all: hosts: server1: ansible_host: [email&#16...

Ansible AWX requires inventories to be entered in yaml or json format. When you start learning ansible, you may take the choice to start off with your inventory in ini format. https://docs.ansibl...

I am having a playbook with two different plays Sample.yml - name : Play1 hosts: Host1 tasks: ... - name: Play2 hosts: Host2 tasks: ... I need to run this playbook with two different ho...

I'm creating a playbook with this play: On hosts hypervisors: retrieve list of virtual machines from all hosts use module add_host to add all of them in a new inventory group called guests My ...

In Ansible 2.1, I have a role being called by a playbook that needs access to a host file variable. Any thoughts on how to access it? I am trying to access the ansible_ssh_host in the test1 section...

i have 500+ target servers that have a ansible compatible python version 2.7 installed at different locations like shown below. /usr/bin/python /opt/apps/xerto/tools/ansible/bin/python2.7 /opt/atl...

I have a host file that looks roughly like this: [kibanamaster] efk host_ip host user passwd [elasticnode] esnode host_ip user passwd and I am trying something in the style of - name: get ip a...

Introduction For over a month I've been running the following command: ansible-playbook -vvvvi host_test rhel-tests.yml Which connected via SSH and ran tests on a host successfully without a...

In the best practices page, there is an example that uses hosts.yml for hosts files: In the docs, however, I can only find the INI syntax for writing hosts files. What is the syntax for the inv...

Considering the following Ansible hosts file: [webservers] server1.example.com ansible_ssh_pass=1234567 server2.example.com ansible_ssh_pass=2345678 server3.example.com ansible_ssh_pass=3456789 ...

In Ansible 2.4.2.0, can I override the SSH key set in inventory with ansible_ssh_private_key_file on command line? It is not possible with --private-key option as reported on this issue: Command-li...

I have a use case where I need to create a directory in all hosts in a group whose name will be the name of the group. Eg : I create a dynamic inventory file with output of the form : { "d...

In my inventory I define hosts like this: [server1] 141.151.176.223 I am looking for a variable which keeps the server1 name, as I am using it to define server hostname. inventory_hostname is...

I have the next snippet in my role template: upstream portal { {% set nodes = groups["my_dev_cluster"] %} {% for node in nodes %} ...do something with nodes... {% endfor %} } And it works we...

So from what I gather, we can use ansible.cfg to set the default inventory file that ansible looks for when running a playbook. We can also override that inventory by using the -i parameter when r...

I'm trying to write a simple Ansible Playbook, please look at snippets below. Using Ansible 2.4.0.0, Ubuntu 17.04, Python 2.7.13. This is my first time using Ansible and Playbooks so please don't b...