Ansible notes.
Important! How do you have one task run on the local machine
rather than the remote? Use the delegate_to task property.
delegate_to: localhost
20170710/http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_delegation.html#delegation
There are also methods to have the entire playbook run locally.
20170710/DuckDuckGo ansible create a role that runs locally
20170710/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18900236/run-command-on-the-ansible-host
Important! Play failing because a machine cannot be connected to
gather facts? How do you continue to run plays that don’t require a
connection? Use gather_facts: false the beginning of the play.
20170717/https://viewsby.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/ansible-disable-gather-facts/
Important! Use meta: reset_host_failures if you want to continue a
playbook after a host failed due to a connection failure.
20170717/http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_error_handling.html#ignoring-failed-commands
Important! How to wait until a guest VM has been shutdown. And, how to figure out what is registered in a variable when the Ansible documentation is lacking.
20170717/http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/vmware_guest_facts_module.html
20170717/http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/debug_module.html
20170717/http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_loops.html
20170717/http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/wait_for_module.html
Important! There are a lot of things you can do with inventory files in Ansible. A first read of the related documentation is not enough.
20170717/https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html
Important! Do you want to generate an inventory file when provisioning VMs using Ansible? Use this to help get yourself started.
20170717/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26732241/ansible-save-registered-variable-to-file
Having trouble with lineinfile and selinux Python module? Look here
for a solution. Basically, you just copy the selinux Python module
directory from your system into your virtualenv.
20170818/DuckDuckGo python selinux
20170818/https://dmsimard.com/2016/01/08/selinux-python-virtualenv-chroot-and-ansible-dont-play-nice/
cp -piR /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/selinux ~/aenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
Another option is to build your virtualenv to include all the system site packages as follows:
virtualenv --system-site-packages myenv
Important! Ansible notes. Using when with loops will mean that the
when will be applied for each loop item. Simple note, easy as that,
from the official documentation.
Oh yeah, don’t worry about needing generated variable names,
dictionary syntax this[that] will work adequately.
Important! Ansible notes. How do you access the variables
assigned to a different host? Use hostvars.
How do you find out all these variables of Ansible? Difficult stuff, read the source code, dump the list of all variables, and so on.
Global variables? Don’t bother. Setting a variable in a run_once
section should be good enough.
20170819/DuckDuckGo ansible run once with items inventory hosts
20170819/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21908363/ansible-read-inventory-hosts-and-variables-to-group-vars-all-file
Important! Having trouble creating VMware VMs using Ansible
vmware_guest module? Well you’re troubles are indeed valid. This
has been filed as a known issue with a fix in the latest development
version, merged just a few days ago.
20170719/Yahoo vmware_guest resource_pool
20170719/https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/22706
20170719/https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/24768
Now what? Now when I try to run the role, it fails because it can’t find a template file.
20170719/DuckDuckGo vmware_guest Unable to access the virtual machine
configuration: Unable to access file
20170719/https://communities.vmware.com/thread/69466
Solution? I don’t know.