Most viewed questions in Ansible

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How to deploy war file into the Websphere using ansible playbook

Hi@M, You can use the below-given example. - name: ...READ MORE

Jun 29, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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Ansible: Deleting matching IPs from hosts file using regex

Ansible notation isn't the same as YAML ...READ MORE

Jul 25, 2018 in Ansible by DareDev
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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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How to create an S3 bucket using Ansible Playbook?

Hi@akhtar, Ansible has a module that can create ...READ MORE

Dec 4, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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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 create a group using Ansible Playbook?

Hi@akhtar, You can find one module named group ...READ MORE

Sep 1, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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How to use an URL in Ansible Playbook?

Hi@akhtar, You can use the get_url module in ...READ MORE

Aug 20, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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How to copy folders using url in windows in ansible?

Hi@akhtar, You can find the win_get_url module. This ...READ MORE

Aug 27, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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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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fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Either region or ec2_url must be specified"}

Hi@akhtar, You got this error because you did ...READ MORE

Aug 12, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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How to configure yum using Ansible Playbook?

Hi@akhtar, You need to use the yum_repository module ...READ MORE

Aug 4, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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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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Run bundle install inside rvm - Ansible roles

Example config installing ruby system-wide ripped right ...READ MORE

Mar 13, 2019 in Ansible by Kim
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How to launch an EC2 instance using Ansible Playbook?

Hi@akhtar, Ansible has one module named ec2. This ...READ MORE

Aug 12, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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Pass multiple password files while running ansible playbook

Hey @Neha, you can pass your password ...READ MORE

Mar 6, 2019 in Ansible by Yesha
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Reset unreachable hosts - Ansible

If you try using the host that ...READ MORE

Feb 7, 2019 in Ansible by Yesha
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Control machine requirements for Installing Ansible

Ansible can be run from any machine ...READ MORE

May 13, 2019 in Ansible by anonymous
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How to import files in Ansible-Playbook?

Hi@akhtar, You can use vars_files keyword in Ansible. ...READ MORE

Aug 11, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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Ansible playbook to start or stops a Liberty Profile server in WebSphere deployment

Check this out: - name: Start liberty_server: ...READ MORE

Oct 30, 2019 in Ansible by Tanya
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Ansible playbook giving an error - all hosts have already failed - aborting

Hey @Ruth, you seem to have made ...READ MORE

Jan 17, 2019 in Ansible by Sameer
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Boto config file on Linux

Hey @Hari, your boto config file could ...READ MORE

Mar 26, 2019 in Ansible by Raymond
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Install multiple roles - Ansible

You'll need a requirements.yaml file which will ...READ MORE

Jan 10, 2019 in Ansible by Rishi
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Error saying "Invalid input (privileged mode required)" - Ansible

The task that generated this error requires to enable mode ...READ MORE

Mar 6, 2019 in Ansible by Yogesh
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Variables needed to write ansible playbook to install Mysql and mariadb on ubuntu

You need three main variables, one to ...READ MORE

Oct 24, 2019 in Ansible by Bob
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How to set dynamic host inventory file for docker in Ansible?

Hi@akhtar, In a configuration especially a container setup such ...READ MORE

Sep 20, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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Error saying "ConnectionError(ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(2, 'No such file or directory')),)"

Hey @Nisha, you get this error when ...READ MORE

Feb 1, 2019 in Ansible by Kunal
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Error saying "No handler was ready to authenticate. 1 handlers were checked"

You are mixing underscore and hyphen. cat /etc/ansible/ec2-vars/te ...READ MORE

Mar 13, 2019 in Ansible by Kim
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Running Ansible Bash profile shows messages everytime a terminal is opened

Change the bash profile to read like ...READ MORE

Jan 14, 2019 in Ansible by Cobe
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Playbook to gather ec2_asg_facts AWS auto scaling group

Hey @Neya, try something like this: --- - name: ...READ MORE

Apr 2, 2019 in Ansible by Pam
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Become : yes is not working while running ansible playbook from Jenkins pipeline job

Hi, Jenkins will not able to run the ...READ MORE

Jul 21, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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getting error while installing ansible on redhat8

Solution is to update epel.  https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3358 Try and let ...READ MORE

Dec 4, 2019 in Ansible by Raveendiran
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Check status of an operation running in the background - Ansible

Hey @Neel, According to the documentation, Long running ...READ MORE

Mar 6, 2019 in Ansible by Yesha
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what is the difference between tags and delegate_to in ansible?

Hey @Rajendra, If you wish to perform ...READ MORE

Sep 24, 2019 in Ansible by Kalgi
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How do I see all the inventory variables defined for my host?

Hey @Junaid, You can see all the ...READ MORE

Jan 31, 2019 in Ansible by Mahir
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Disadvantages of using Ansible Vault

There are two main disadvantages: If you lose ...READ MORE

Mar 6, 2019 in Ansible by William
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Can Ansible replace Jenkins?

Ansible is a configuration management tool whereas ...READ MORE

Nov 15, 2019 in Ansible by Eric
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Error saying "No packages marked for update" when trying to install ansible using yum

If you're just trying to upgrade to ...READ MORE

Jan 14, 2019 in Ansible by Nippun
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Can we use Ansible and Rundeck together, or using either one is enough?

Hi@akhtar, It depends on your requirement. According to ...READ MORE

Dec 16, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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lineinfile module in Ansible

You can use the lineinfile module for ...READ MORE

Jan 17, 2019 in Ansible by Emily
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How to download a role from Ansible Galaxy?

Hi@akhtar, In Ansible, the role is the primary ...READ MORE

Aug 28, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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Error output difficult to read - Ansible

Hey @Lisha, you can use the callback ...READ MORE

Jan 17, 2019 in Ansible by Sameer
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FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "This module has been removed. The module documentation for Ansible-2.3 may contain hints for porting"}

Hi@akhtar, You are using the docker module. This ...READ MORE

Sep 20, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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Backup file name - Ansible

Hey @Veronica, 6332 is the process ID ...READ MORE

Feb 4, 2019 in Ansible by Fazi Mullah Khan
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Error while creating resource group on Azure using Ansible

Please check you indentation, remove all spaces ...READ MORE

Mar 17, 2020 in Ansible by Shrikant Yerge
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Failed to mkdir while creating a handler directory - Ansible

Hey @Ali, try running it as a ...READ MORE

Mar 14, 2019 in Ansible by Bob
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How to write ansible playbook for storage health checking? Any references?

Why ansible in particular? You can use ...READ MORE

Oct 29, 2020 in Ansible by Lohith
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Using lxc_container module in ansible

This mostly happens when you've not installed ...READ MORE

Aug 10, 2018 in Ansible by DareDev
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