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View the encrypted file without decrypting - Ansible Vault

Hey @Laksha, you can view the file ...READ MORE

Mar 6, 2019 in Ansible by William
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Running to plays in one playbook

The inventory file is loaded before a ...READ MORE

Jun 25, 2018 in Ansible by ajs3033
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How to create an Elastic Load Balancer in AWS with Ansible Playbook?

Hi@akhtar, You can find one module in ansible ...READ MORE

Oct 12, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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How to delete a key pair in AWS from Ansible-Playbook?

Hi@akhtar, You can use the ec2_key module in ...READ MORE

Aug 12, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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Execute ansible playbook periodically

You could use include_role, according to the ...READ MORE

Jan 17, 2019 in Ansible by Kevin
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How to create a simple S3 bucket on Ceph Rados Gateway using Ansible Playbook?

Hi@MD, Ansible has one module that can create ...READ MORE

Dec 4, 2020 in Ansible by akhtar
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Playbook to create VM with existing storage account on Azure

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

Mar 27, 2019 in Ansible by Barbara
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I could install Git, can u please explain how to set up chromedriver(selenium), chromium browser(selenium) on the slave node through Ansible

Hi@Vinodkumar, Did you go through the related question ...READ MORE

Dec 22, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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Delete previously added authorized keys and add new ones

Hey @Emily, hope this works - name: Set ...READ MORE

Feb 12, 2019 in Ansible by John
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ERROR: Inventory script (inventory/ec2.py) had an execution error: ERROR: "Authentication error retrieving ec2 inventory.

Hi@akhtar, You have to generate the AWS credentials ...READ MORE

Aug 21, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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How to create a variable in Ansible Playbook?

Hi@akhtar, Variable in playbooks are very similar to using variables in ...READ MORE

Aug 2, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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Encrypting few variables and embedding them in playbook

Hey @Camron, you can just encrypt those ...READ MORE

Mar 7, 2019 in Ansible by Fez
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Configuring SSH Access to the Ansible Hosts

Hey @Shakira, follow these steps: Execute the following ...READ MORE

Jan 17, 2019 in Ansible by Sam
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Ansible playbook to delete multiple S3 buckets

Hey @Hari, you can use the following ...READ MORE

Aug 30, 2019 in Ansible by Chris
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How to remove an S3 bucket using Ansible playbook?

Hi@akhtar, You can create or remove an S3 ...READ MORE

Dec 4, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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How to create a group of Managed Nodes in Ansible?

Hi@akhtar, You can use tags in your inventory ...READ MORE

Aug 1, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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devops , how to create user using ansible playbook

root doesn't need a password to switch ...READ MORE

Jul 16, 2018 in Ansible by Kalgi
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How to create an ECS cluster using Ansible Playbook?

Hi@akhtar, You can create or terminate ECS clusters. ANsible has ...READ MORE

Dec 4, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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ansible playbook that installs or uninstalls IBM Installation Manager

have a look at this ansible-playbook. It ...READ MORE

Oct 30, 2019 in Ansible by Yesha
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What is vault id?

A vault id is an identifier for ...READ MORE

Mar 7, 2019 in Ansible by William
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Error saying script is already running - Ansible playbook error

Remove the previous processes before running this ...READ MORE

Feb 8, 2019 in Ansible by Dee
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Error saying "ERROR: ec2_vpc_subnet is not a legal parameter of an Ansible Play"

ec2_vpc_subnet is support from Ansible version 2.0 and ...READ MORE

Feb 8, 2019 in Ansible by Dee
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What is Handlers in Ansible?

Hi@akhtar, Handlers are just like normal tasks in an Ansible ...READ MORE

Aug 20, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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Can Ansible modules be used from the command line?

Yes @Donna, you can execute a module ...READ MORE

Feb 11, 2019 in Ansible by Tariq
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Running task from Different roles in parallel

Hi@Shambhavi, You can use tags in your task. ...READ MORE

Oct 7, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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Where do I get Ansible Tower hostname

Hey @Neel, you can fetch that information ...READ MORE

Feb 1, 2019 in Ansible by Anisha
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Install mean stack on ubuntu using ansible

You can have three roles  under /etc/ansible/roles -prerequisites -mongodb -nodejs under /etc/ansible ...READ MORE

Mar 15, 2019 in Ansible by Janice
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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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Running Ansible Tower behind nginx

Hey @Jeena, you should find it at /etc/tower/conf.d/remote_host_headers.py, ...READ MORE

Feb 1, 2019 in Ansible by Anisha
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How to write ansible script for installing jenkins on aws RHEL?

Check this out. https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-jenkins H ...READ MORE

Sep 24, 2020 in Ansible by smy
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How do I make my_dir available for all hosts? - Ansible

Hey @Kiara,  f you want to make my_dir available to ...READ MORE

Feb 1, 2019 in Ansible by Anisha
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How do i automatically install galaxy roles?

You should use a requirements.yml file for this use-case. ...READ MORE

Mar 12, 2019 in Ansible by William
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Abort playbook execution when servers fail to deploy.

Het @Peter, try something like this: - name: ...READ MORE

Feb 7, 2019 in Ansible by Pragati
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ansible playbook to create and remove a WebSphere Application Server Node Agent profile

This should workout: - name: Create profile_nodeagent: ...READ MORE

Oct 30, 2019 in Ansible by Tanishq
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Create a directory at a specific path using ansible

To create a directory using Ansible, you ...READ MORE

Jan 9, 2019 in Ansible by Jason
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Create Network Load Balancer on AWS using Ansible

Hey @Neha, you can create NLB using ...READ MORE

Mar 24, 2019 in Ansible by Arc
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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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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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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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Why is my output sometimes replaced with ********* ? - Ansible

Any string marked no-log, including passwords, are ...READ MORE

Feb 1, 2019 in Ansible by Anisha
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How to launch ec2 instance with allocating EIP?

I have tried to launch EC2 instance ...READ MORE

Sep 10, 2019 in Ansible by Lakshminarayanan
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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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Requirements in the host that executes the mysql_db module.

These are the requirements for the host ...READ MORE

Feb 4, 2019 in Ansible by Diana
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Playbook to create a VM on Azure

Hey @Bob, try something like this to ...READ MORE

Mar 27, 2019 in Ansible by Jason
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Can you give example for environment module and also explain about environmnet

Hi @Vivek So basically when you are working ...READ MORE

Jan 16, 2020 in Ansible by Kalgi
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What are the different types of plugins available in Ansible?

Ansible provides a huge variety of plugins ...READ MORE

Feb 19, 2019 in Ansible by Priya
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How to create a docker container using Ansible?

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

Sep 20, 2020 in Ansible by MD
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