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Ansible role is a set of tasks to configure a host to serve a certain purpose like configuring a service, whereby they are defined using YAML files with a predefined directory structure, as part of the provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool Ansible. Use this tag for questions related to the role tasks in Ansible.

Ansible role is a set of tasks to configure a host to serve a certain purpose like configuring a service, whereby they are defined using YAML files with a predefined directory structure, as part of the provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool Ansible. Use this tag for questions related to the role tasks in Ansible.

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Ansible import role run conditionally

I am writing a parent ansible role that runs another role though import_role. The idea that this sibling role (staticdev.pyenv) only runs when an argument pyenv_python_versions is passed, otherwise this is skipped. According to the official…
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How are files run in a Files folder in an ansible Role?

I have an ansible playbook, deploy_app_prod.yml, that calls the app_beanstalk ansible role ├── app_beanstalk │   │   ├── README.md │   │   ├── defaults │   │   │   └── main.yml │   │   ├── files │   │   │   ├── extensions │   │   │   │   ├──…
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instrument datadog agent by the location of logs file with datadog ansible role

I tried to enable logs collecting with datadog ansible role, but I can't figure out why the logs are not sent to the Datadog ui I found an example of a playbook in the role GitHub repo, - hosts: servers roles: - { role: datadog.datadog,…
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How to use with_sequence in Ansible

I want to run ansible role by iterating it through count of value that I am providing. Say for example: Below is the Ansible role main.yml, in which I include a yaml file to execute where this included yaml file should execute the number of times…
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Creation of several users with access to a personal database

Needed to create seven databases, for each database you need one user with the same name as the database. db_names: - keystone - neutron - glance - placement - nova - nova_api - nova_cell0 - name: Create user with password …
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I have used register variable to store output values of task so i'm using same value in when condition from ansible role

--- - name: Check the apps list in ArgoCD server with related to cluster:"{{clustername.stdout}}" shell: | argocd app list | grep {{clusterip.stdout}} | grep {{proj_name}} | awk '{print $1}' register: applist - debug: var:…
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Ansible package installation as meta dependency or task

This is a design / architecture question to resolve my messed-up brain :) With ansible I want to install a package on my systems via role. There are two ways in this discussion: Specify the package(s) as role dependency in…
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Extending role variables Ansible

I am having an Ansible role. In this role, I have vars/main.yml file. In the same directory, I would like to have "secret.yml" file containing vault encrypted variables. What would be the syntax for "main.yml" file to pull the role-wide variables…
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Calling roles in a loop using dictionaries from an array as vars

My question is somehow similar to the one posted here, but that doesn't quite answer it. In my case I have an array containing multiple vars: entries, which I loop over when calling a certain role. The following examples shows the…
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How to populate parameters for an ansible role dynamically from a json file?

I'm working on passing parameters/vars to an ansible role dynamically by reading them from a JSON file. Consider the following role call (with optional parameters like phone, address, email, city) - name: Ansible role | Create include_role: …
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Ansible Role design

just a short question which came to my mind in the last days: When you write roles lets say for a specific object type (AWS EC2 instance), do you write single roles for each operation like VM-Create, VM-Destroy, VM-Reboot .... or do you pack them…
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Ansible shell module auto-escaping backslashes

I just started using Ansible for my home project and I am having problems with the Ansible shell module. From my host_vars I define a list of bash commands to be executed: commands: - sed -i -E 's/\/var\/www\/html/\/var\/www\/public/'…
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Conditionally incude ansible role's variable files

Ordinarily I would dump variables in roles/myrole/defaults/main.yml. I don't need to explicitly include them - that's done for me automatically. But let's say I need to support Debian and CentOS and have identical variables with different values.…
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Override Ansible hosts on a specific role

I have a playbook like below - name: Do something hosts: "view-servers" roles: - { role: role1, var1: "abc" } - { role: role2, var2: "def" } - { role: role2, var2: "ghi" } The servers in view-servers are identical and replicated. So…
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Using Ansible variable across roles in different files

Here I am trying to perform the below-listed activities Deregister Instance from Application Load Balancer Deploy Application Register back the same instance on the Application Load Balancer The use case is to add back the deregistered instance…
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