Ansible

Ansible

2024-03-05 2017-07-13
Ansible howto's
2024-02-21 2020-11-24
Ansible Vault / ansible-vault
2024-01-23 2018-05-18
Ansible errors
2023-11-29 2019-09-26
ansible and ansible-playbook CLI flags
2023-07-20
The args keyword
2023-07-20 2017-07-03
Ansible modules
2023-02-01 2016-10-19
Typical Ansible project file tree
2022-01-03 2021-07-29
Ansible best practices
2021-01-26 2021-01-22
Ansible environment variables
2020-10-22 2020-09-25
ansible.cfg
2020-09-28
What's the difference between the vars and defaults role directories ?
2020-06-17 2019-11-20
static vs dynamic, aka import vs include
2020-05-27
asynchronous and background tasks
2020-05-13
Ansible glossary
2020-02-10 2014-10-15
Ansible playbooks
idempotence
2020-01-22 2016-10-20
The inventory file
all children ungrouped
2019-11-28
"New platform" cheatsheet
2019-11-20 2017-01-30
Using tags to slice playbooks
always never tagged untagged all --skip-tags --start-at-task
2019-10-24 2017-07-04
Make Ansible role file tree easily : makeAnsibleRoleSkeleton.sh
2019-09-26 2016-10-28
ansible-playbook
2019-09-26 2014-10-09
Introduction to Ansible
2019-09-13
group_vars
2018-03-07 2016-11-29
ansible-playbook : prompt for passwords with -k and -K

Ansible errors

2024-01-23 2019-09-30
UNREACHABLE! => Data could not be sent to remote host "12.34.56.78". Make sure this host can be reached over ssh:
2021-05-25
The network starts disconnected after deploying a VM with Ansible and vmware_guest
2019-10-21
timedatectl command was found but not usable: Failed to create bus connection: No such file or directory + given timezone "Etc/UTC" is not available
docker
2019-10-18
"msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: ", "unreachable": true
2019-09-30
ERROR! 'delegate_to' is not a valid attribute for a TaskInclude
2018-04-18
AnsibleFilterError: The ipaddr filter requires python-netaddr be installed on the ansible controller
2018-04-04
fatal: [server]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Incorrect sudo password"}
2017-07-28 2017-01-06
AnsibleError: Can't LOOKUP(dig): module dns.resolver is not installed

Ansible HowTo's

2024-03-05
How to collect information about the slave nodes ?
2023-11-06 2020-05-18
How to specify target hosts ?
2023-10-26
How to run a task when a regex matches ?
2023-06-16
How to list all tasks using a specific module ?
2021-10-08 2017-07-26
How to run commands on many hosts with the ansible CLI (aka Ad-Hoc Commands)
exclude, pattern, sudo
2021-06-22
How to stop the execution of a play for a host and let it continue for others ?
2021-06-22 2019-11-20
How to stop ansible-playbook execution (i.e. something like --stop-at-task) with / without a failure exit code ?
assert, fail, end_play
2021-05-28 2021-05-25
How to spawn virtual machines with VMware and Ansible ?
2021-01-20 2021-01-08
How to subtract a list from a list ?
difference, match, reject, search
2020-12-22
How to send an alert with Ansible ?
2020-10-21
How to view Ansible settings values (custom or default) ?
ansible-config, DEFAULT_
2020-05-13
How to loop on a list of items ?
2017-09-11
How to override /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg settings with personal values ?
2017-07-13
How to use with_items ?

Ansible modules