Most answered questions in Ansible

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Unarchive module overwriting - Ansible

Hey @joe, you can use the create option, ...READ MORE

Jan 30, 2019 in Ansible by Khadeer
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Is there a way to recover lost Ansible Vault password?

Hey @Sridhar, There is no way to ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Akthia
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How to set vault password on ansible tower?

On Ansible Tower, go to Settings > ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Yesha
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Is there any way to encrypt --private-key with ansible-vault and use it encrypted with Ansible Playbook

Hey @Kajol, Create a passphrase for the key openssl ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Anupam
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Error while using ansible vault "ERROR! input is not vault encrypted data for vars/vars-mysql-config.yml"

Hey @Bhupan, I think your file is ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Kavya
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Encrypt an encrypted file - Ansible Vault

Hey @Fez, This is one of the way ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Cerci
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Upload encrypted file using ansible vault?

You can do this, make your playbook ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Faizal
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Creating non interactive ansible vault

Hey @Jolly,  You can use the --vault-password-file option for ansible-vault non-interactive ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Shah
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What is Ansible Vault?

Vault is something that holds the encrypted ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Kavya
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How to create a new encrpted file using Ansible Vault?

If you are creating a new file ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Kyraa
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How to encrypt and existing file using Ansible Vault?

Hey @Kyraa, to encrypt an existing file ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Kavya
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What files can be encrypted using the Ansible Vault?

Yes @Umang, Ansible Vault is used to ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Kavya
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Encryption using vault

Hey @Neha, unfortunately, that's not possible. You ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Nish
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Trying to execute bash script using Ansible one one node

You could make your task an asynchronous action by ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Kavya
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How to remove cron using Ansible

Hey @Likhit, You could use something like ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Kavya
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where to install Ansible galaxy?

Hey Gayatri, This can be done with ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Kavya
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Error when executing ansible playbook on Azure

Hey @Ganga, As the error message says, ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Kavya
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Error saying "ERROR: sudo_pass is not a legal parameter at this level in an Ansible Playbook"

Here sudo_pass is where you're going wrong. ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Hatim
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lookup_plug in file too distributed

Hey @laksha, you can wrap it into ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Kavya
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lookup_plugins directory in Ansible

Hey @Ruth, check one of these places: check ...READ MORE

Jan 29, 2019 in Ansible by Kavya
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User on the target VM - Ansible

Yes @Nisha, You can run a shell ...READ MORE

Jan 28, 2019 in Ansible by Kavya
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Error saying "ERROR! Unexpected Exception: 'module' object has no attribute '_vendor'"

Ansible is highly dependant on the python ...READ MORE

Jan 28, 2019 in Ansible by Varsha
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Error when installing a role - Ansible

The yaml python package is provided by the PyYAML pip ...READ MORE

Jan 28, 2019 in Ansible by Fez
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Ansible vs Ansible Tower

Ansible is CM tool and orchestration engine. ...READ MORE

Jan 28, 2019 in Ansible by Haider
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What is ansible tower?

Hey @Nisha, Ansible Tower is Ansible at a ...READ MORE

Jan 25, 2019 in Ansible by Shankar
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Virtualization Infrastructure supported by Ansible

Yes, Vagrant supports Ansible, in-fact Ansible is ...READ MORE

Jan 25, 2019 in Ansible by Sai
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Ansible and NetApp provisioning

Ansible and NetApp hopped in as one ...READ MORE

Jan 25, 2019 in Ansible by Vivan
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Use cases of modernizing and automating workflow

Of course automation is being used everywhere and ...READ MORE

Jan 25, 2019 in Ansible by Wong
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Ansible use cases

There are 6 main places where ansible ...READ MORE

Jan 25, 2019 in Ansible by Chester
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Multilines in shell script inside Ansible playbook

You could write your playbook in this ...READ MORE

Jan 25, 2019 in Ansible by Donna
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How to configure fact caching in Ansible?

There are two cache plugins: redis and jsonfile. To ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Kennedy
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Define variables in Ansible Playbook

Variable names should be letters, numbers, and ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Jinha
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How do i get Ansible predefined variables?

There three types of variables variables gathered from ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Parth
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Access Inventory file - Ansible

You can just use {{ ansible_ssh_host }} Inventory: [my_hosts] my_host ansible_ssh_host=127.0.0.1 ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Akansha
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Execute shell commands using Ansible

You can use a playbook for this ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Ayaan
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How do I get an ENV variable and store it into a local variable - Ansible

Hey @Ninja, that is possible. What you ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Thomas
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Print multiple env variables using ansible playbook

Hey @Tom, you can use the lookup ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Rick
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How do I access environment variables in Ansible?

Yes @Nagray, you're right! You can access ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Tessie
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How to use get_url on windows - Ansible

Hey @Biji, you could use the win_get_url ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Olly
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Create directories and download files in Ansible using Ansible playbook

Hey @Yash,  you could either use file module ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Cerdin
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How do I wget a file from web server using shell in the ansible playbook

Hey Ayaan, you could probably use this ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Anushri
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Ansible playbook to automate security configurations of an EC2 instance

Hey @Kiara, your indentation is very wrong. ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Harsh
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Errors when executing - ansible -m ping all - kubespray

Hey @Ananya, make sure of these following ...READ MORE

Jan 24, 2019 in Ansible by Yesha
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Where to find inventory file? - Kubespray

By default its located in /etc/ansible/hosts. You can ...READ MORE

Jan 23, 2019 in Ansible by Noor
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Set an explicit inventory file - Kubespray

Hi @Isha, Go to /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg In the default section ...READ MORE

Jan 23, 2019 in Ansible by Yesha
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Can I use Kubespray without using kubespray_git_repo?

Hey @Sparsh, Obviously you can, follow these ...READ MORE

Jan 23, 2019 in Ansible by Shankar
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Calico wait for etcd error when creating kubernetes cluster using kubespray

Hey @Kanika, You need to open two ...READ MORE

Jan 22, 2019 in Ansible by Jinha
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Install snap for Kubernetes cluster automation

Hey @Mohit, there is no snap module ...READ MORE

Jan 22, 2019 in Ansible by Veronica
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Mention Kubernetes version while using it with ansible

Hey @Dustin, The default value for roles is kube_version: ...READ MORE

Jan 22, 2019 in Ansible by Anushri
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How to get details of playbook executions

Run these commands to enable logging before ...READ MORE

Jan 22, 2019 in Ansible by Tanishq
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