For Ansible ad hoc commands (so, ansible commands outside of a playbook).
Questions tagged [ansible-ad-hoc]
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Retry ansible ad-hoc when failure
In ansible playbook, we can detect the result of shell command, check then retry if having failure like this
---
# Retry when failure
- hosts: all
become: yes
become_user: www-data
vars:
ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3
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Hieu Huynh
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Deleting multiple users with Ansible ad-hoc command
When running Ansible ad-hoc to remove users I was unable to feed multiple items to
module. Like this:
ansible -i my_inv all -m user -a"name={{ users }} state=absent" --check --extra-vars='{"users":["user1","user2"]}'
the output is:
server1 |…
Daniil Aksenov
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Ansible adhoc command default user
Just exploring ansible and i am using ansible adhoc command
hosts file for ansible:
[cloud] node ansible_ssh_private_key_file=myfile.pem
ansible_user=ec2-user
$ ansible node -m ping -u ec2-user > works
$ ansible node -m ping > does not work
My…
Chandan Nayak
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Can ansible ad-hoc tolerate some hosts failures?
I know ansible playbooks can set max_fail_percentage to allow the playbook to progress if at least that percentage of the hosts succeeded. However, I wanted to run an ad-hoc command that succeded (exit status 0) if at least a percentage of the hosts…
Capi Etheriel
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Ansible ad-hoc task: How to separate output by host for clarity?
Is there a way to separate by host the output from a multi fork ad-hoc command?
I.e., if I ran:
ansible -a '/some/cmd' -f 2
The result comes back as one long stream like
host1 | CHANGED | rc=0 >>
Listing...
"some output"
host2 | CHANGED |…
Stephen Gibbons
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Ansible ad hoc lookup
ansible all -m authorized_key -a 'name=automation key="{{lookup('file','/home/automation/.ssh/id.pub') }}' -C
ansible all -m authorized_key -a 'name=automation key="{{lookup('file','/home/automation/.ssh/id.pub') }}' -CD
ansible all -m…
Dennis
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How can we prompt with some tag?
I was wondering if you can help me with some sample.
I know that modules like tag and when are helpful on this case. However, I am having hard times to create the yml file.
The goal is:
On server1, the commands are:
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user1681128
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How to supply both named and free_form arguments to ansible ad-hoc?
I ran across one of Ansible's modules that take free_form arguments along with named arguments - win_command. A specific example is given, where a powershell script is provided on stdin:
- name: Run an executable and send data to the stdin for the…
myxal
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Ansible adhoc command with sudo
I'm tried to execute this command:
ansible somegroup -m raw -a "docker ps -a" --ask-pass -K --become-user root
But the error is:
Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon
socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock:
How to…
Meiram Chuzhenbayev
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Ansible adhoc command returning a duplicate parameter found error when using raw module
I couldn't seem to find an answer to this query here already and can't seem to find anything with googling.
I am trying to run an adhoc command on a remote box using ansible and I keep getting "a duplicate paramter was found in the argument string"…
markus02
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Why giving a host alias does not work with an Ansible Inventory file?
production (inventory file):
#main ansible_host=54.293.2785.210 ansible_port=22 ansible_ssh_user=ubuntu
54.293.2785.210 ansible_ssh_user=ubuntu
Running an ad-hoc command: ansible all -i production -a "hostname" Works!
But when I uncomment the first…
tread
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simple quote issue for automate ansible ad-hoc command
I try to make shell script to automate some ansible ad-hoc command.
e.g.
/usr/bin/ansible app -m shell -a 'echo $HOME'
I write a simple script to automate this kind of tasks :
#!/bin/bash
set -x
ANS_BIN="/usr/bin/ansible"
pattern="app"
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Antoine
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Ansible ad hoc commands only work as sudo unless i'm in the hosts directory
I'm trying to work through getting started with ansible. When I try to run ad hoc commands with ansible, such as ansible all -m ping I have to either be in the same folder as my hosts file ~/Development/ansible/ or use sudo. I'm getting ready to…
Joe Madden
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Ansible ad-hoc command works but same doesn't work in ansible playbook
I'm able to run the raw module using Ansible ad-hoc commands however, when run the playbook with same commands it fails with error:
invalid output was: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/ansible-tmp-1418879078.47-138258829915016/setup",…
ankit tyagi
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Ad hoc command with vmware.vmware_rest.*
Is it possible to use the ad hoc command with the Ansible modules vmware.vmware_rest.* ?
I am trying to run a simple comma to get virtual machine info.
ansible \
-m vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vm_info \
-a "vcenter_hostname=vcenter-ip…
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