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The problem is that without the indentation of the command line, the command directive is part of the overall play, and not the task block.i.e. the command should be part of the task block. — # This playbook runs a basic DF command. – hosts: nagios #remote_user: root tasks: – name: find disk space available. … Read more

Ansible tags use “or” not “and” as a comparison. Your solution to create yet another tag is the appropriate one.

Use no_log: true on those tasks where you want to suppress all further output. – shell: whatever no_log: true I believe the only mention of this feature is within the FAQ. Example playbook: – hosts: – localhost gather_facts: no vars: test_list: – a – b – c tasks: – name: Test with output shell: echo … Read more

Delegating the tasks to the localhost via the delegate_to statement should do what you want: – name: Check for ~/.blah/config delegate_to: localhost stat: path: /home/ubuntu/.blah/config register: stat_blah_config

I found the environment variable – export ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES=1 Set this, then re-run ansible-playbook, and then ssh and cd over to ~/.ansible/tmp/ to find the files.

The with_first_found conditional can accomplish this without a stat or local_action. This conditional will go through a list of local files and execute the task with item set to the path of the first file that exists. Including skip: true on the with_first_found options will prevent it from failing if the file does not exist. … Read more

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

To my surprise I didn’t find the simplest solution in all the answers, so here it is. Referring to the question title Installing multiple packages in Ansible this is (using the yum module): – name: Install MongoDB yum: name: – mongodb-org-server – mongodb-org-mongos – mongodb-org-shell – mongodb-org-tools state: latest update_cache: true Or with the apt … Read more

You can simply inspect the groups variable using the debug module: ansible localhost -m debug -a ‘var=groups.keys()’ The above is using groups.keys() to get just the list of groups. You could drop the .keys() part to see group membership as well: ansible localhost -m debug -a ‘var=groups’