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
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
Updated When I fist wrote my answer (2014-02-27), Ansible had no built-in support for running a task only once per playbook, not once per affected host that the playbook was run on. However, as tlo writes, support for this was introduced with run_once: true in Ansible version 1.7.0 (released on 2014-08-06). With this feature, the … Read more
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.
If you really want to append to content, you will need to use the set_fact module. But if you just want to use the merged lists it is as easy as this: {{ list1 + list2 }} With set_fact it would look like this: – set_fact: list_merged: “{{ list1 + list2 }}” NOTE: If you … Read more
So how can I properly save the results of the operations in variable names based on the list I iterate over? You don’t need to. Variables registered for a task that has with_items have different format, they contain results for all items. – hosts: localhost gather_facts: no vars: images: – foo – bar tasks: – … Read more
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’