ansible-project@googlegroups.com discussions for October 2014

21	[ansible-project] Ansible quoting

I am having trouble getting ansible to parse my variable values correctly. I have defined a variable: installArguments: "appPoolName='UiService'; dbPassword='password'; dbUserId='user'" I then have a ...

Michael Perzel
Oct 20, 2014 at 4:21 pm
Feb 24, 2015 at 6:29 pm

19	[ansible-project] RHEL6.6 and ControlPersist

Hi, As some of you may know, Red Hat backported the ControlPersist functionality to the OpenSSH version that ships with RHEL6. This is terrific since RHEL users can now use this technique to speed up ...

Dag Wieers
Oct 15, 2014 at 2:57 pm
Nov 14, 2014 at 12:10 am

18	[ansible-project] Template paths

I tried asking the IRC channel but I didn't get any responses so I figure that the mailing list might be better suited to this question. I'm trying to build an extensible iptables template. All of my ...

Joe Adams
Oct 21, 2014 at 9:35 pm
Jan 5, 2015 at 11:36 pm

13	[ansible-project] How can I do multiple tests within a single when: statement

I've looked and looked but I can't find it. How do I do multiple tests within a single when statement. For instance when: var1 == "X" AND var2 == "Y" And while I'm at it, how can I do OR statements ...

Eric Wedaa
Oct 4, 2014 at 6:42 pm
Oct 6, 2014 at 12:36 pm

11	[ansible-project] extra_vars don't override inventory variables in templates (continuing #9242)

Hi I hope this is the right place to post this. I reported https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9242 a few days ago and I still have issues after it was closed. I'll give a similar example to ...

Hagai Kariti
Oct 7, 2014 at 7:50 am
Nov 7, 2014 at 2:37 pm

10	[ansible-project] ansible 1.8 (devel 4c86bd3ca6) not reading group_vars?

Following the documentation at http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html. I setup an inventory file and group windows. I setup a group_vars for for windows. $ cat customer/windows-testing [windows] ...

Bob Tanner
Oct 22, 2014 at 7:44 pm
Apr 10, 2015 at 1:40 pm

10	[ansible-project] How do I shuffle/randomize long lists of hosts please?

How do I shuffle/randomize long lists of hosts? That is, without writing an executable hosts file that randomizes them and then spits them out, and then dealing with all the groupings and variables ...

Eric Wedaa
Oct 5, 2014 at 5:24 pm
Oct 6, 2014 at 6:50 pm

10	[ansible-project] Any chance for a 'stable' Ansible branch in main GitHub repository?

Hello, I'm testing my Ansible roles (58 at the moment) on Travis-CI using RoleSpec framework (https://github.com/nickjj/rolespec/). Testing is currently done by cloning Ansible from its main GitHub ...

Drybjed
Oct 2, 2014 at 1:27 pm
Oct 2, 2014 at 9:14 pm

10	[ansible-project] apt module doesn't install module with a 'when' condition

Hi, I run ansible 1.7.2 under ubuntu 14.04 amd64 I made a playbook to upgrade only package that I added to a list. ( ...

Johan Chassaing
Oct 1, 2014 at 9:19 pm
Oct 2, 2014 at 8:56 pm

9	[ansible-project] ansible >=1.7 fails unnecessarily by trying to open irrelevant vaults?

Hi all, I've been using ansible 1.6.x and I love it -- soo much easier than how I've had to do things in the past :) I'm running into an issue upgrading to 1.7.x. Suddenly all my playbooks refuse to ...

Colin Nichols
Oct 30, 2014 at 11:21 pm
Nov 5, 2014 at 10:41 pm

8	[ansible-project] Better output for ad-hoc commands?

Is there any way to get Ansible to provide cleaner/human readable output when running ad-hoc commands? Sometimes, particularly when output of a process is voluminous, it drops newlines and munges ...

Alex Scoble
Oct 30, 2014 at 6:26 pm
Nov 1, 2014 at 2:45 pm

8	[ansible-project] tags and role dependencies

Hello @all, i have an strage behavior with role dependencies and tags. I have an playbook like this: --- - name: install and configure a basic set of tools gather_facts: true hosts: - is roles: - { ...

Daniel Wendler
Oct 24, 2014 at 12:17 pm
Oct 25, 2014 at 1:01 am

7	[ansible-project] Create variable as dict using jinja2 within playbook

Hello there, Is it possible to create a variable which is a dict using jinja2 within a playbook? For example, I have the following (contrived) playbook, within which I am trying to create a ...

Anth Courtney
Oct 22, 2014 at 7:44 pm
Apr 9, 2015 at 11:16 pm

7	[ansible-project] Ansible Windows

I am trying to setup windows remoting for ansible. I have Ansible version 1.7.2, ee-bryan is Windows 8.1, ee-csg is Windows Server 2012. Both have Powershell 4. under /etc/ansible I have created ...

Bryan Cochrane
Oct 18, 2014 at 11:00 pm
Dec 4, 2014 at 8:07 pm

7	[ansible-project] handler + include

Hi, having the following task in my main.yml in a role (tasks/main.yml): - name: mytask copy: src=/source dest=/destination notify: redeploy with the following handler ( handlers/main.yml): - name ...

ProfHase
Oct 8, 2014 at 10:54 am
Nov 18, 2014 at 8:48 pm

7	[ansible-project] npm is not a legal parameter at this level in an Ansible playbook

I am trying to install forever through npm on Centos 6.3 version. Getting the error as above if my .yml file is first level of playbook. --- - name: install forever npm: name=forever global=yes ...

Ansi11
Oct 22, 2014 at 7:44 pm
Oct 31, 2014 at 8:37 am

6	[ansible-project] ignore_errors does not take variable

Hi, I was trying to use ignore_errors to take a variable, but it fails. Here is example play for ignore error not working: - hosts: jump remote_user: deploy gather_facts: yes tasks: - set_fact ...

Yasir Saleem
Oct 6, 2014 at 5:22 pm
Mar 1, 2015 at 3:55 am

6	[ansible-project] SIGHUP sent using ansible ?

Hello, I'm very puzzled by the following: using regular ssh I'm not getting SIGHUP at the end. using ansible SIGHUP get's sent : strace output : 0x7f34a666c9d0, tls=0x7f34a666c700, ...

Alainkr
Oct 15, 2014 at 11:39 am
Jan 9, 2015 at 9:09 am

6	[ansible-project] Create different sets of users on different sets of hosts

Hi, A new ansible user here... I've been perusing the mailing list archives and have gathered a lot of useful tidbits. I've been fairly successful in figuring out how to create a set of users on a ...

Paul Slootman
Oct 27, 2014 at 8:26 pm
Nov 11, 2014 at 4:00 pm

6	[ansible-project] Unable to figure out arrays

I would like to be able to put my users into a list and be able to select what user has access to each machine. --- - name: Set up users hosts: localhost gather_facts: no vars: - alice: name: Alice ...

Michael Bushey
Oct 9, 2014 at 11:38 pm
Oct 10, 2014 at 6:51 pm

6	[ansible-project] Rename rax server

Hi, Is there any way to rename a rax server, using an ansible module? It doesn't seem to be possible using the rax_meta module, and I couldn't see anything else appropriate. I can do it in the ...

Graham Hay
Oct 8, 2014 at 4:17 pm
Oct 9, 2014 at 8:03 am

6	[ansible-project] is it possible to maintain order within with_ loops?

Hi! I have a custom iterator that needs to execute in the order specified in the data structure being passed to it. It seems, however, that the order is getting lost when it enters the looping code ...

Guy Matz
Oct 3, 2014 at 2:28 pm
Oct 3, 2014 at 9:40 pm

6	[ansible-project] Ansible and SSH agent forwarding

So I'm running 3 CentOS 6.5 machines and came upon this thing which I don't understand. server 1: client machine server 2: ansible machine server 3: any target machine controlled by ansible. server ...

Mark
Oct 1, 2014 at 11:56 am
Oct 1, 2014 at 1:09 pm

5	[ansible-project] ansible_ssh_user and ansible_ssh_pass in windows.yml

Details: Ansible 1.8 CentOs 7 Windows 7 (not a server os) Documentation <http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html#inventory specifies that for remote nodes running windows we add these definitions ...

Skinnedknuckles
Oct 29, 2014 at 9:58 pm
Apr 26, 2015 at 1:43 am

5	[ansible-project] ec2_eip is not idempotent

Depending on your use case, ec2_eip is not idempotent. I would like to attach a new EIP to an instance *iff* the instance doesn't already have an EIP attached. Currently, the module operates in two ...

Erewh0n
Oct 29, 2014 at 9:00 pm
Nov 11, 2014 at 9:38 pm

5	[ansible-project] PyCharm & Modules

Hi, Has anyone found a good way to debug ansible modules via the PyCharm debugger? -T -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To ...

Tennis Smith
Oct 29, 2014 at 4:52 pm
Oct 30, 2014 at 8:42 pm

5	[ansible-project] What to do when sudo password prompt is hidden

I'm using Ansible to do an ad-hoc command against multiple systems. The command does a wget and then pipes to sudo sh. Obviously, I'm using the shell module to do this. Psuedo command: ansible group ...

Alex Scoble
Oct 30, 2014 at 4:57 pm
Oct 30, 2014 at 5:34 pm

5	[ansible-project] How are debug: var=vars / var=hostvars supposed to work?

Per the documentation and this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ansible-project/rE8aVu4LNS0/sGKweGPvffoJ I *think* that debug: var=hostvars should print all the variables in scope (for each ...

Ross Rosen
Oct 15, 2014 at 9:45 pm
Oct 24, 2014 at 1:21 pm

5	[ansible-project] Minimize ssh connections number

Hello, everybody! I use ansible for everyday production servers maintenance. During run, ansible makes a lot of ssh connections to every server, every connection is logged and according to internal ...

Alexey Wasilyev
Oct 18, 2014 at 11:00 pm
Oct 22, 2014 at 6:13 pm

5	[ansible-project] Prompt question again. Thanks

Between my lack of Ansible mastery and its kind of syntax, rare is the day I don't get stuck... Either the syntax is not intuitive or I have no intuition. I am trying to do something very simple and ...

Tiglath
Oct 15, 2014 at 6:02 pm
Oct 17, 2014 at 10:22 pm

5	[ansible-project] syntax error in vars bubstution [ shell module ]

Hi, --- - hosts: service vars: app_service_port: 8080 tomcat_home: /opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.9 remote_user: deploy tasks: - name: stop tomcat shell: {{ tomcat_home }}/bin/shutdown.sh - name: start ...

Olga
Oct 8, 2014 at 7:41 pm
Oct 15, 2014 at 4:25 pm

5	[ansible-project] Dependencies between tasks possible?

Hi All! Just want to say hello to all first since this is my first post to this list! My questions is if there is a way to have dependencies between tasks. Example: I have one task which puts a shell ...

Berndadamowicz
Oct 13, 2014 at 9:33 pm
Oct 14, 2014 at 10:16 am

5	[ansible-project] Reading a JSON file, adding to it and then saving it

Hi, I'm trying to add lines to the Logstash Forwarder config file, which looks like this right now: { "network": { "servers": [ "1.2.3.4:5000" ], "timeout": 15, "ssl ca" ...

Mark Gavalda
Oct 6, 2014 at 12:25 pm
Oct 8, 2014 at 10:00 pm

5	[ansible-project] Ansible facts missing nfs mounts

Hi, The facts that are returned from a machine are missing the hard mounted nfs mounts. So something like this in fstab is not available as a fact <nfsserver :/vol/vol1/<directory /<mountpoint nfs ...

Mzp45
Oct 2, 2014 at 3:57 pm
Oct 5, 2014 at 5:51 pm

5	[ansible-project] file created by ansible seems to have strangely mangled permissions (looks OK as root but looking generates errors as regular user)

Issue with files created by Ansible I’m looking at using to setup some new servers at a new ISP and I’ve been doing some basic steps to test first. I am new but have done some testing on diff servers ...

Paul Hardwick
Oct 1, 2014 at 11:56 am
Oct 3, 2014 at 6:43 pm

5	[ansible-project] PROPOSAL: 'description' parameter

Hi list, I'd like to open a discussion about "description" parameter. Ansible does nothing about on it. It just describing what is it. I know YAML can have a comment and name is good to know what ...

Shirou
Oct 1, 2014 at 6:57 am
Oct 3, 2014 at 8:33 am

5	[ansible-project] Python API -> Inventory Variables

All - I am having hell with this: getLog = ansible.runner.Runner( forks=100, inventory=ansible.inventory.Inventory('inventory'), module_name='fetch', module_args='src=/tmp/logs.tar.gz ...

CJR
Oct 1, 2014 at 11:56 am
Oct 1, 2014 at 2:34 pm

4	[ansible-project] ansible gem not installing dependencies

Hi there, I tried to install fluentd elasticsearch plugin using ansible gem, however for some reason the installation does not install the dependencies even though i explicitly set to install ...

J Soetanto
Oct 26, 2014 at 11:58 pm
Jul 29, 2015 at 4:13 pm

4	[ansible-project] Re: Problems setting up WinRM

I've reinstalled everything and am still having trouble getting win_ping to work. Here is my info: Fedora 20 Ansible 1.7.1 Remote node running windows 7 The WinRM script by Trond runs without errors ...

Skinnedknuckles
Oct 9, 2014 at 5:14 pm
Apr 26, 2015 at 1:29 am

4	[ansible-project] How to copy to remote servers

I am new to ansible and need suggestion as I how to perform different task in different hosts. I need to setup jdk & wls in one host and move the binaries(jdk/wls) from same server to other servers ...

Vinay Bhasker
Oct 24, 2014 at 10:19 pm
Nov 4, 2014 at 6:09 pm

4	[ansible-project] Consistent docker_image module failure on ec2 instances

Gurus, I'm trying to create a docker image from a Dockerfile in an ec2 instance. I'm able to create the ec2 instances and copy over the dockerfile fine. However, for *every* ec2 instance I fire up, ...

Ananda Debnath
Oct 30, 2014 at 9:43 pm
Nov 1, 2014 at 2:51 pm

4	[ansible-project] make SSH interactive or bulking adding SSH host keys?

I'm trying to migrate an existing cloud cluster to ansible. It's about 10 machines. I want to use Ansible to add my SSH key to all boxes so I can just ssh authenticate. But the I have the following ...

Kevin Burton
Oct 30, 2014 at 11:36 pm
Nov 1, 2014 at 2:47 pm

4	[ansible-project] the precedence of var_files includes when path is constructed from vars

Hello, Something I discovered about ansible this morning surprised me. Essentially: when loading vars files, anything loaded with a *dynamically constructed name depending on the host* seems to be ...

Nick
Oct 27, 2014 at 6:24 pm
Nov 1, 2014 at 2:45 pm

4	[ansible-project] Is aptitude really needed?

I am running multiple services on lean (minimal) containers on Debian and aptitude package needs to be installed on the target system if you want to run: "apt: upgrade=full" command Is there a ...

Goran Jurić
Oct 24, 2014 at 4:19 pm
Oct 30, 2014 at 5:57 pm

4	[ansible-project] fetch module - hostname instead of ip in the filesystem tree?

Hello, I was wondering if there's any way to use the hostname of a server rather than it's IP to generate the file system tree when using the fetch module? Our ansible inventories are set up like ...

Michael Warkentin
Oct 22, 2014 at 7:44 pm
Oct 24, 2014 at 3:20 pm

4	[ansible-project] Error running ec2.py script

I have a freshly installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instance running ansible 1.5.4 and python 2.7.6 In general my ansible playbooks are running normally, using modules such as apt, gem, pip, authorized_key, ...

Bruce Bundy
Oct 23, 2014 at 3:35 pm
Oct 24, 2014 at 1:30 pm

4	[ansible-project] Iterating over complex dictionary, but only when key exists

Hello list, I've got a complex dictionary I'm using to configure haproxy with, which looks something like this (non-relevant portions have been removed): { "l7config": { "stats_password" ...

Dane Elwell
Oct 21, 2014 at 1:17 pm
Oct 23, 2014 at 1:18 pm

4	[ansible-project] Split between CI on our servers, and releases to clients

Hi Our software is created using our CI processes: we build and deploy artefacts of multiple technologies and test in the cloud. However, when we come to deliver the s/w to the customer, we end up ...

Kulwinder Singh
Oct 22, 2014 at 9:38 pm
Oct 22, 2014 at 11:26 pm

4	[ansible-project] Need serial at the task level for delegate_to or another solution

ansible has a "serial" option at the playbook level but not at the tasks level. I feel like i need a similar construct to avoid race conditions when I have multiple hosts delegate_to something ...

Kesten Broughton
Oct 20, 2014 at 9:49 pm
Oct 22, 2014 at 6:02 pm

4	[ansible-project] register variables and use these as role name

Hello, let's suppose I have multiple groups of virtual guests, all are split to different environments and are running 2 kinds of applications but with different configurations. In /etc/environment ...

Denis J. Cirulis
Oct 15, 2014 at 9:45 pm
Oct 17, 2014 at 7:42 am

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