Given that you do not use Paramiko for ssh (transport = ssh), Ansible will fully use your ~/.ssh/config. Therefore you can globally define all connection rules in your ssh configuration. If for some reason you want Ansible to not use your default ssh config but provide an separate configuration, you can define this in your … Read more
By default, Ansible overrides variables at the first level. If you want to be able to merge dictionaries, you have to change your ansible.cfg file and set : hash_behaviour=merge (the default value being replace). Note that the Ansible team does not recommend this. I guess this is a real dividing setting between users. A kind … Read more
You are on the right track about hostvars. This magic variable is used to access information about other hosts. hostvars is a hash with inventory hostnames as keys. To access fields of each host, use hostvars[‘test-1’], hostvars[‘test2-1’], etc. ansible_ssh_host is deprecated in favor of ansible_host since 2.0. So you should first remove “_ssh” from inventory … Read more
The problem is resolved by removing this line from the playbook: sudo: yes When sudo is run on the remote host, the environment variables set by ssh during login are no longer available. In particular, SSH_AUTH_SOCK, which “identifies the path of a UNIX-domain socket used to communicate with the agent” is no longer visible so … Read more
Keep in mind that the Ansible plugin is out of the box with Rundeck Community and Enterprise, both solutions must coexist in the same server/host to work correctly. So, basically, you need to follow these steps: 1- Configure the Ansible model source. For that click on “Project Settings”, click on “Edit Nodes…” and then click … Read more
Thanks to tmoschou for adding this comment to an outdated accepted answer: As of Ansible 2.10, The documentation for ansible.builtin.copy says: If you need variable interpolation in copied files, use the ansible.builtin.template module. Using a variable in the content field will result in unpredictable output. For more details see this and an explanation Original answer: … Read more
As @ant31 already pointed out, you can use the synchronize module for this. By default, the module transfers files between the control machine and the current remote host (inventory_host), however that can be changed using the delegate_to parameter of a task (it’s important to note that this is a parameter of the task, not of … Read more
Using if-else expression: – set_fact: c: “{{ ‘test1’ if (a >= b) else ‘test2’ }}” Using ternary operator: – set_fact: c: “{{ (a >= b) | ternary (‘test1’, ‘test2’) }}” Using your own code which is correct (see the notice below) Either of the above methods requires both variables used in comparison to be of … Read more
With Ansible 2, this is a built-in option: How do I configure a jump host to access servers that I have no direct access to? With Ansible 2, you can set a ProxyCommand in the ansible_ssh_common_args inventory variable. Any arguments specified in this variable are added to the sftp/scp/ssh command line when connecting to the … Read more
You need to convert the variable to a boolean: force_install|bool == true I don’t claim I understand the logic behind it. In python any non-empty string should be truthy. But when directly used in a condition it evaluates to false. The bool filter then again interprets the strings ‘yes’, ‘on’, ‘1’, ‘true’ (case-insensitive) and 1 … Read more