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
Hows this – hosts: localhost vars: war_files: server1: – file1.war – file2.war server2: – file1.war – file2.war – file3.war tasks: – name: Loop over subelements of the dictionary debug: msg: “Key={{ item.0.key }} value={{ item.1 }}” loop: “{{ war_files | dict2items | subelements(‘value’) }}” dict2items, subelements filters are coming in Ansible 2.6. FYI, if a … Read more
To run a task when destroy is true: — – hosts: localhost connection: local vars: destroy: true tasks: – debug: when: destroy and when destroy is false: — – hosts: localhost connection: local vars: destroy: false tasks: – debug: when: not destroy
You can use something like this: — – hosts: all gather_facts: no become: yes tasks: – name: install git package apt: name: git – name: Get updated files from git repository git: repo: “https://{{ githubuser | urlencode }}:{{ githubpassword | urlencode }}@github.com/privrepo.git” dest: /tmp Note: {{ githubpassword | urlencode }} is used here, if your … Read more
They both seem to be the same. Take a look here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/c600ab81ee/lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py#L46-L55 # the magic variable mapping dictionary below is used to translate # host/inventory variables to fields in the PlayContext # object. The dictionary values are tuples, to account for aliases # in variable names. MAGIC_VARIABLE_MAPPING = dict( connection = (‘ansible_connection’,), remote_addr = (‘ansible_ssh_host’, … Read more
I came across this problem today on OSX, where I was running a docker shell command which took a long time to build and there was no output whilst it built. It was very frustrating to not understand whether the command had hung or was just progressing slowly. I decided to pipe the output (and … Read more
You could use the synchronize module. The example from the documentation: # Synchronize two directories on one remote host. – synchronize: src: /first/absolute/path dest: /second/absolute/path delegate_to: “{{ inventory_hostname }}” This has the added benefit that it will be more efficient for large/many files.
Simply: – name: Create symbolic link file: src: “{{SOURCE_FOLDER}}” dest: “/opt/application/i99/SYMLINK” state: link As you can see in the manual for the file module: src Will accept absolute, relative and nonexisting paths. Relative paths are not expanded.
become_user defines the user which is being used for privilege escalation. become simply is a flag to either activate or deactivate the same. Here are three examples which should make it clear: This task will be executed as root, because root is the default user for privilege escalation: – do: something become: true This task … Read more
Ansible below version 2.5 requires Python 2.6 or 2.7 on the control host: Control Node Requirements basestring is no longer available in Python 3. From What’s New In Python 3.0: The builtin basestring abstract type was removed. Use str instead. The str and bytes types don’t have functionality enough in common to warrant a shared … Read more