There is a definition of [all:vars] in my ansible inventory file as follows: [all:vars] ansible_shell_type=bash ansible_user=certain_user ansible_ssh_common_args="-o ConnectionAttempts=10" I pla...

I am trying to get this to only apply to my dev and hydra servers. I have 2 host files with hosts in them. The dev-all host group is [dev-all:children] dev-group1 dev-group2 The hydra group only...

I am using Ansible to create a new EC2 instance and try to install some packages on it. The problem is I am adding a new host to a host group but I can not see that host group in another play. When...

I have a simple ansible role and couple of basic tasks within this role. All tasks are defined as local_action(or delegate_to: localhost). The host defined in the playbook is also localhost. Now ...

I am writing automation with this type of Ansible inventory: [nodes] <publicIp1> privateIp=<privateIp1> <publicIp2> privateIp=<privateIp2> I do this because sometimes hos...

With a personal user account (userx) I run the ansible playbook on all my specified hosts. In ansible.cfg the remote user (which can become root) to be used is: remote_user = ansible For the rem...

I have an inventory file like: [my_domain] 255.255.255.255 [production:children] my_domain [load_balancer:children] my_domain [webservers:children] my_domain I have a playbook.yml like: ---...

I am trying to run an Ansible playbook against a server using an account other than the one I am logged on the control machine. I tried to specify an ansible_user in the inventory file according to...

How can I run a playbook only on first host in the group? I am expecting something like this: --- - name: playbook that only run on first host in the group hosts: "{{ groups[group_name] | first ...

I have a situation where we have 3 tiers of boxes, in each tier we apply different variables settings (like where the cache dir is), but there are a bunch of defaults. I also need to override on a ...

Ansible version: 2.1.0 My ansible hosts file is: [PM] xyz.example.com ansible_connection=ssh [ND] pqr.example.com ansible_connection=ssh [CM] xyz.example.com ansible_connection=ssh pqr.example....

What approach would you advise to organize multistage deployment with Ansible in case you have different variables for stages? The main idea is defining group variables for different stages. Ther...

I am using the host file as below, [qa-workstations] 10.39.19.190 ansible_user=test ansible_ssh_pass=test I am using below command to execute "whoami" command in host root@Svr:~/ansible# ansibl...

I am able to define a hash(dict) like below in group_vars/all: region_subnet_matrix: site1: region: "{{ aws_region }}" subnet: "subnet-xxxxxxx" zone: "{{aws_region}}a" site2: region: "{{ aws...

I have some difficulties to adapt Ansible configuration to my environment. My testing environment : PermitRootLogin no Only one user allowed to connect through SSH (foo, without any privileges) ...

As the subject says. I have some host variables defined in my hosts inventory file. How do I access them in my playbook? Here is an example. Based on all my research I was expecting foo and bar to...