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Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems

Ansible 2.x is a new backwards-incompatible version that involved a rewrite of the core, and a new API.

Ansible 2.x features new commands like ansible-vault, allowing you to store encrypted information in playbooks and have them decrypted on the fly. It also includes new concepts like Task Blocks, Dynamic Includes, Execution Strategy Plugins, and a suite of new "batteries included" modules. Most importantly, new releases are named after Led Zepplin songs, rather than Van Halen.

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Ansible - Use default if a variable is not defined

I'm customizing linux users creation inside my role. I need to let users of my role customize home_directory, group_name, name, password. I was wondering if there's a more flexible way to cope with default values. I know that the code below is…
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Run an Ansible task only when the variable contains a specific string

I have multiple tasks depend from the value of variable1. I want to check if the value is in {{ variable1 }} but I get an error: - name: do something when the value in variable1 command: when: "'value' in {{ variable1 }}" I'm using…
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Accessing inventory host variable in Ansible playbook

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 of the following inventory host…
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Difference between become and become_user in Ansible

Recently I started digging into Ansible and writing my own playbooks. However, I have a troubles with understanding difference between become and become_user. As I understand it become_user is something similar to su , and become means…
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Unexpected Exception: name 'basestring' is not defined when invoking ansible2

I'm trying to execute ansible2 commands... When I do: ansible-playbook -vvv -i my/inventory my/playbook.yml I get: Unexpected Exception: name 'basestring' is not defined the full traceback was: Traceback (most recent call last): File…
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Ansible: copy a directory content to another directory

I am trying to copy the content of dist directory to nginx directory. - name: copy html file copy: src=/home/vagrant/dist/ dest=/usr/share/nginx/html/ But when I execute the playbook it throws an error: TASK [NGINX : copy html file]…
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How to create a relative symlink in Ansible?

In my playbook, I need to create a symbolic link for a repo. With command (shell) it may work like this: ########## Create symbolic link - name: Create symbolic link shell : ln -s "{{SOURCE_FOLDER}}" SYMLINK args : chdir :…
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How can I show progress for a long-running Ansible task?

I have a some Ansible tasks that perform unfortunately long operations - things like running an synchronization operation with an S3 folder. It's not always clear if they're progressing, or just stuck (or the ssh connection has died), so it would…
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Ansible remote_user vs ansible_user

The question is simple: what is the difference between ansible_user (former ansible_ssh_user) and remote_user in Ansible, besides that the first one is set if configuration file and the latter one is set in plays / roles? How do they relate to -u /…
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How do I pass username and password while using Ansible Git module?

While doing clone, push or pull of a private git repository hosted internally (e.g. on a GitLab instance) with Ansible's Git module, how do I specify username and password to authenticate with the Git server? I don't see any way to do this in the…
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Using True False with Ansible When Clause

I'm running into the silliest issue. I cannot figure out how to test for boolean in an Ansible 2.2 task file. In vars/main.yml, I have: destroy: false In the playbook, I have: roles: - {'role': 'vmdeploy','destroy': true} In the task file,…
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How to loop over this dictionary in Ansible?

Say I have this dictionary war_files: server1: - file1.war - file2.war server2: - file1.war - file2.war - file3.war and for now I just want to loop over each item (key), and then over each item in the key (value). I did this - name:…
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Ansible Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt

I'm having trouble running my Ansible playbook on AWS instance. Here is my version: $ ansible --version ansible 2.0.0.2 I created an inventory file as: [my_ec2_instance] default ansible_host=MY_EC2_ADDRESS ansible_user='ubuntu'…
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Running Python script via ansible

I'm trying to run a python script from an ansible script. I would think this would be an easy thing to do, but I can't figure it out. I've got a project structure like this: playbook-folder roles stagecode files …
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How to compare kernel (or other) version numbers in Ansible

For a role I'm developing I need to verify that the kernel version is greater than a particular version. I've found the ansible_kernel fact, but is there an easy way to compare this to other versions? I thought I might manually explode the version…
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