Simplified answer from link I mentioned in the comment: — – hosts: centos-target gather_facts: no tasks: – shell: “(cd /; python -mSimpleHTTPServer >/dev/null 2>&1 &)” async: 10 poll: 0 Note subshell parentheses. Update: actually, you should be fine without async, just don’t forget to redirect stdout: – name: start simple http server in background shell: … Read more
Solution join filter works on lists, so apply it to your list: – name: Concatenate the public keys set_fact: my_joined_list: “{{ my_list | join(‘\n’) }}” Explanation While my_list in your example is a list, when you use with_items, in each iterationitem is a string. Strings are treated as lists of characters, thus join splits them. … Read more
If you have a variable like vars: myvar: xxx xxx_var: anothervalue the working Ansible syntax: – debug: msg={{ vars[myvar + ‘_var’] }} will give you the analogue of: – debug: msg={{ xxx_var }}
From version 2.0, in copy module you can use remote_src parameter. If True it will go to the remote/target machine for the src. – name: Copy files from foo to bar copy: remote_src=True src=/path/to/foo dest=/path/to/bar If you want to move file you need to delete old file with file module – name: Remove old files … Read more
Try this option. You’ll love it. There’s a new YAML callback plugin introduced with Ansible 2.5 — meaning any machine running Ansible 2.5.0 or later can automatically start using this format without installing custom plugins. To use it, edit your ansible.cfg file (either globally, in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg, or locally in your playbook/project), and add the following … Read more
Now supported as of Ansible 2.3.0: – name: myrole with_items: – “aone” – “atwo” include_role: name: myrole vars: thing: “{{ item }}”
As advised in the Frequently Asked Questions of Ansible, moustache do not stack. Another rule is ‘moustaches don’t stack’. We often see this: {{ somevar_{{other_var}} }} The above DOES NOT WORK as you expect, if you need to use a dynamic variable use the following as appropriate: {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname][‘somevar_’ ~ other_var] }} For ‘non host … Read more
Deprecation Notice: This post doesn’t work as of ansible 2. The API was changed. This covered in the Ansible documentation under “Python API.” For example, ansible -i hosts dbservers -m setup is implemented via: import ansible.runner runner = ansible.runner.Runner( module_name=”setup”, module_args=””, pattern=’dbservers’, ) dbservers_get_facts = runner.run() There are a bunch of non-documented parameters in the … Read more
An important comment from tmoschou: 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: You could use the copy module, with … Read more
You can either change the sudo config for the user owen with this command: sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers and change the line with user owen to this: owen ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL then sudo won’t require Ansible to enter the password. Or you could instruct Ansible to ask you for the password with the parameter –ask-become-pass like … Read more