ansible-project@googlegroups.com discussions for November 2015

27	[ansible-project] msg: hostname module cannot be used on platform Linux (Centos linux)

Hello everyone, I am getting the following error while attempting to run a Galaxy role that was published for EL 7. My target host is an AWS EC2 instance running CentOS 7.0.1406. The only info I have ...

Joanna Delaporte
Nov 11, 2015 at 8:44 pm
Nov 17, 2015 at 9:40 pm

13	[ansible-project] Attempting to yum install multiple packages using with_items results in Python AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split'

Good afternoon, I am attempting to install multiple packages on a CentOS 7 server. I am using 2.0.0-rc1. I keep running into a python error. I tried using a yum task in a role, using with_items like ...

Joanna Delaporte
Nov 25, 2015 at 5:40 pm
Nov 26, 2015 at 4:16 am

10	[ansible-project] --start-at-task seems broken on 2.0.0-stable

[prior post had a link in the title - if a mod can delete that post, would be great, thanks!] I'm having some issues with ansible 2.0.0-stable (b69942a), where --start-at-task can't find the task ...

Brandon Heller
Nov 25, 2015 at 9:22 pm
Dec 3, 2015 at 12:10 am

7	[ansible-project] Manage Unix Users Over Multiple Evironments with Ansible

Hi, I'm trying to manage a small number of Unix users on a smallish estate of servers (~100 servers). My users are either devs, sysadmins or support, and need different access to different boxes ...

Ralph Bolton
Nov 13, 2015 at 6:02 pm
Nov 17, 2015 at 9:08 am

7	[ansible-project] using a variable as a group name when executing a task ?

Hi all ! is there any way of achieving the following ? ( i've tried this ones and i get "*no hosts matched*" ) monitor_group = "glance" - hosts: "{{ monitor_group }}" roles: - { role ...

Alejandro Comisario
Nov 13, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Nov 15, 2015 at 8:27 pm

7	[ansible-project] Connecting to existing ec2 instances

Hi, I recently inherited an Ansible deployment that manages some EC2 instances and I have a couple questions. I am unable to find a pem file/ssh key on the local file system, but somehow Ansible is ...

Nathan chu
Nov 12, 2015 at 9:38 pm
Nov 13, 2015 at 6:27 pm

6	[ansible-project] Reusing a set of taks across many roles

H All, I have a piece of code which is required to run by many roles. Instead of duplicating these tasks which brings maintenance problem as it grows, I would like somehow to re-use same set of tasks ...

Co S
Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 pm
Dec 6, 2015 at 1:56 am

6	[ansible-project] SSH Error: data could not be sent to the remote host. Make sure this host can be reached over ssh

I’m trying to use private keys. I've got it all setup and it works when I use this command. ssh -C <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="284ee04debda8a6989b2822d59bd0b9b" [email protected]</span ...

Theyuseus
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:11 pm
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:23 pm

6	[ansible-project] Looping through hosts in a playbook

I'm working on a playbook, that will be deploying a java app to four hosts. I want it to push the app out to each node, making sure the correct directories exist to push the new version to - that's ...

Roger Sherman
Nov 25, 2015 at 7:24 pm
Nov 27, 2015 at 8:20 pm

6	[ansible-project] Troubleshooting Windows Host UNREACHABLE!

I have many windows hosts that have been configured identically (as far as I can tell) and I can connect to all but one of them. Anyone have an idea of why this may be happening? - Up to date on all ...

Matt Calhoun
Nov 11, 2015 at 9:47 pm
Nov 12, 2015 at 11:04 pm

6	[ansible-project] FAILED => Missing sudo password when NO SUDO PASSWORD is needed

I have SUDO configured to work without passwords. This command *works just fine*: ansible quee -a "/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/apt-get update" This command *fails with "FAILED = Missing sudo password "* ...

Jeff
Nov 10, 2015 at 4:48 pm
Nov 11, 2015 at 7:51 pm

5	[ansible-project] ansible didn't stop execution upon a task failure

hi I have the below ansible playbook named backup_data.yml, which is included by the main playbook named upgrade.yml. backup_data.yml ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --- - ...

Leon Xie
Nov 30, 2015 at 8:11 am
Dec 3, 2015 at 8:04 am

5	[ansible-project] Ansible create an IAM user with a group and with administrator privilege

Hi, Can someone please help me in creating an IAM user with a group and with administrator privilege Thanks, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible ...

Adithya Khamithkar
Nov 28, 2015 at 1:23 pm
Nov 29, 2015 at 9:43 pm

5	[ansible-project] Unable to auth via ec2.py

I thought this would be the easiest part of creating a dynamic inventory, but I'm having a hell of a time connecting: boto.exception.NoAuthHandlerFound: No handler was ready to authenticate. 1 ...

Rob Wilkerson
Nov 24, 2015 at 7:03 pm
Nov 25, 2015 at 10:47 pm

5	[ansible-project] Howto Install nmcli extras module?

Hi everyone, I was trying to use the nmcli module this morning, and kept getting an error (ERROR: nmcli is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler). Apparently, this module doesn't ship ...

Joanna Delaporte
Nov 23, 2015 at 5:51 pm
Nov 23, 2015 at 6:54 pm

5	[ansible-project] Re: Ansible 2.0 RC1 is available for testing!

Is there a document anywhere that describes the changes and/or recommendations to migrate playbooks from 1.9.x to 2.0.0 (I'm not seeing anything obvious)? I installed 2.0.0 and attempted to run an ...

John Peacock
Nov 20, 2015 at 11:48 pm
Nov 23, 2015 at 5:15 pm

5	[ansible-project] Solaris and pfexec, not working?

Hi, I am not able to get the "ping" modules working when using privilege escalation on Solaris 11. I am using Ansible 1.9.4 from a CentOS 7.1 control machine: $ ansible --version ansible 1.9.4 ...

Thomas Willert
Nov 12, 2015 at 3:34 pm
Nov 16, 2015 at 7:40 am

5	[ansible-project] How to SUBSTRING a string from a variable like hostname_01.com:28569 ... get only the hostname part or the port ?

Hi, if I have a string/var with hostname_01.com:28569, how can I use the hostname part (hostname_01 and don"t use the :28569) to be use in an action ? Regards, -- ------------------------------ This ...

Eric Franckx
Nov 12, 2015 at 1:13 pm
Nov 12, 2015 at 3:33 pm

5	[ansible-project] cant install on os x 10.11

easy install pip worked. but when trying to install ansible, this happens. it looks like a connection error. maybe intermittent failure? $ sudo pip install ansible Downloading/unpacking ansible ...

Pixel fairy
Nov 10, 2015 at 9:20 am
Nov 11, 2015 at 11:01 am

5	[ansible-project] SSH Config file not picked up during playbook execution.

Hello Folks, I am trying to execute a playbook from the control machine in the internal network to a VM located in the DMZ as shown in the diagram below ...

Ayekaymail
Nov 3, 2015 at 1:18 am
Nov 3, 2015 at 3:18 am

4	[ansible-project] prompt_vars again / multiple times

Is there a possibility to prompt a variable again? Currently if you prompt a variable in the first play, you can't prompt for the same variable in the second play. Here is my (example) playbook: - ...

Thomas Steinbach
Nov 30, 2015 at 10:10 pm
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:09 pm

4	[ansible-project] connect to Docker container on remote host

Hi, since Ansible 2.0 it is possible to deploy directly to a docker container via connection=docker. Now I want to create a Role which is starting a Docker container and deploying some stuff to it ...

Thomas Steinbach
Nov 25, 2015 at 2:25 am
Nov 29, 2015 at 8:03 pm

4	[ansible-project] stuck on "Missing become password"

Hello I'm trying to run a playbook that will login as user ansible and then sudo to root to make configurations. I have a sudo entry that will allow root without password. The playbook looks like ...

Dave Thacker
Nov 24, 2015 at 11:34 pm
Nov 25, 2015 at 2:42 pm

4	[ansible-project] remote_user var persists between plays?

Ansible v1.9.4 I have a playbook that I launch with: $ ansible-playbook build.yml build.yml includes set_os.yml (just a set of tasks) that launches some ec2 instances. build.yml looks like this. - ...

Slim Slam
Nov 20, 2015 at 5:25 pm
Nov 20, 2015 at 10:33 pm

4	[ansible-project] Spaces in URL and file name with get_url and unarchive

Hi This URL is for the PyDev plugin for Eclipse: http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pydev/pydev/PyDev 4.4.0/PyDev 4.4.0.zip Note that there is a space in the URL and in the file name itself ...

Nathan Sowatskey
Nov 10, 2015 at 4:31 pm
Nov 18, 2015 at 9:34 am

4	[ansible-project] The file module failing when directory exists

Hi all, Currently a task like this: file: path=/data state=directory owner=root group=root mode=0755 fails with the following error: failed: [localhost] = {"failed": true, "parsed": false} ...

Igor Cicimov
Nov 16, 2015 at 7:06 am
Nov 16, 2015 at 10:47 pm

4	[ansible-project] Dictionary lookups being clobbered when assigning values to children elsewhere

Hey People, Having some trouble using YAML dictionaries. I'm refactoring my variable structure in a role a wrote a while ago. The variables used to all look like: sensu_api_host, but I wanted to move ...

Cmacrae
Nov 15, 2015 at 1:37 pm
Nov 15, 2015 at 6:11 pm

4	[ansible-project] template with groups as a variable

I am trying to do the following where I index groups by a variable instead of hardcoding it. Is that possible somehow? {% for host in groups['{{VAR}}'] %} STUFF {% endfor %} Thanks in advance, ...

Edgardo Vega
Nov 12, 2015 at 12:50 pm
Nov 12, 2015 at 4:08 pm

4	[ansible-project] loop over host group to create string

I have following host group [zookeeper] zk001.abc.cc zookeeper_myid=1 zk002.abc.cc zookeeper_myid=2 zk003.abc.cc zookeeper_myid=3 I want following to be created when playbook run ...

Roy
Nov 5, 2015 at 10:23 pm
Nov 12, 2015 at 11:20 am

4	[ansible-project] Common inventory for multiple separate projects/environments?

Hi, I'm responsible for dozens of separate projects or server environments (each containing multiple hosts) and now planning to manage all of them using ansible. There's a requirement to have a ...

Lupu Pitkänen
Nov 6, 2015 at 12:34 pm
Nov 11, 2015 at 11:49 am

4	[ansible-project] Is there a way to access the host index in a group? I.e. want number in the hosts group am i?

I'm sure this must've come up before but I couldn't find an answer. I have a list of hosts in a group. I want to write an index number on each of those hosts in a file. E.g. the first host has a file ...

Rob White
Nov 5, 2015 at 4:43 am
Nov 6, 2015 at 6:22 am

4	[ansible-project] Automitain run task in several linux machines using script

I have a Java program (/workspace/Task), I want to run it in several Linux machines (m1, m2, m3,,,, mn). I need to run a program Task on machines one by one. In other words, I want to run the Task on ...

ibrahim El-sanosi
Nov 1, 2015 at 8:26 pm
Nov 2, 2015 at 7:43 pm

3	[ansible-project] checking java process

I have the below play to check if JBoss application server is RUNNING. I am getting the message "JBoss Process is running on localhost" (inventory_hostname = localhost) even when JBoss is DOWN. Am I ...

Skr989
Nov 18, 2015 at 4:07 pm
Dec 3, 2015 at 5:28 pm

3	[ansible-project] ansible-playbook hangs during execution

I have a playbook (site.yml) which includes a bunch of other playbooks. Each of these individual playbooks includes one or more roles. I've had problems with site.yml hanging at a specific point ...

Guy Knights
Nov 28, 2015 at 12:31 am
Dec 2, 2015 at 6:46 pm

3	[ansible-project] Problem with executing playbook with fetch command.

Hello guys! I want to share with you my problem which is pretty strange in my point of view. My playbook looks as follows: - name:fetch configuration gather_facts: true hosts: '{{ h }}' sudo: true ...

Marcel Golus
Nov 27, 2015 at 4:06 pm
Dec 2, 2015 at 7:56 am

3	[ansible-project] {{ inventory_hostname }} variable

New to Ansible here, and have a question on using an inventory_hostname variable. I have a playbook that deploys an add-on to numerous servers, using an inventory list of IP addresses setup as so ...

Richard kappler
Nov 25, 2015 at 4:45 pm
Dec 1, 2015 at 6:36 pm

3	[ansible-project] Ansible 2.0 : stable-2.0 branch : cannot import name AnsibleOptionsError

Hello Ansible Geeks I am willing to use ansible 2.0 and i have cloned ansible repository and source /hacking/env-setup and got this error. Please see the details here ...

Karan Singh
Nov 30, 2015 at 8:58 pm
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:13 pm

3	[ansible-project] Help with callback to tower from AWS auto scaling script

Trying to put the bits together to get an auto scaling group in aws to come on line and create a vm that does a callback to tower for provisionment. The bit im getting stuck with is the callback part ...

Adrian Black
Nov 18, 2015 at 5:51 pm
Dec 1, 2015 at 10:21 am

3	[ansible-project] Dynamic inventorying on an EC2 tag basis

Hello, I'm using EC2 dynamic inventorying, and would like to create a new Ansible group to apply roles to by referencing machines tagged with a specific EC2 tag key/value pair. So far, I have this in ...

Andrew Langhorn
Nov 30, 2015 at 1:12 pm
Nov 30, 2015 at 8:17 pm

3	[ansible-project] Ansible extra modules - ec2_vpc_subnet

Hi, I have installed ansible on centos 6 and it seems that I am getting the error : state is not legal... [[email protected] tasks]$ ansible-playbook -v -i /home/user/ansible/ansible_hosts ...

AC
Nov 26, 2015 at 5:48 am
Nov 30, 2015 at 1:07 pm

3	[ansible-project] Ansible 2.0 with_items failing on variable that doesn't exist even though it is in where clause.

This test playbook used to work in ansible 1.9.x and is no longer working. I have no variables (foo or php_packages)defined for this example. --- - debug: msg "Foo is " {{ foo }} when: foo is defined ...

Alan LaCombe
Nov 23, 2015 at 11:33 pm
Nov 24, 2015 at 12:02 am

3	[ansible-project] Action when process stops appending to a file

How do I get Ansible to monitor a log file and take an action when the process stops appending? I have a high volume process that we'll drain before stopping it. The process will have queued a ...

Tom rkba
Nov 20, 2015 at 7:01 pm
Nov 23, 2015 at 7:37 pm

3	[ansible-project] delegate_to /one member/ of a group

Hi there - I'm trying to do something I think should be fairly easy, but I can't seem to find the right magic. I'd like to run a set of commands on behalf of my server, against *any one of another ...

Elliott Barrere
Nov 6, 2015 at 12:30 am
Nov 18, 2015 at 11:35 pm

3	[ansible-project] how does Ansible find my first hand made module? I put it in ./library

I created my first module using your python boilerplates. How do I get my Ansible Playbook to find it? According to the docs, I placed it in ./library/env_checks.py but I still get "ERROR ...

Larry Fast
Nov 17, 2015 at 7:23 pm
Nov 18, 2015 at 4:23 am

3	[ansible-project] How to execute tasks based on group names in ansible

Hi, I would like to use the when condition to execute tasks based on group names in ansible. I am using this code snipit when: ({{group_names}} == "web-server") But it always skips. Can someone ...

Adithya Khamithkar
Nov 15, 2015 at 11:47 am
Nov 16, 2015 at 10:59 pm

3	[ansible-project] Iterate over complex dicitonary structure in j2 tempalte

Sorry if this has been documented elsewhere (where?), but how can one iterate with jinja2 over a dictionary? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33666820/ansible-jinja2-loops-over-complex-structures ...

Hristo Stoyanov
Nov 13, 2015 at 5:26 am
Nov 13, 2015 at 4:29 pm

3	[ansible-project] Role do something after handler?

Hi all, I have a strange one that I hope you can help me with. I'm trying to make a role for systemd service unit files. This is the newfangled replacement for good ol' sysV init scripts in Rhel7, ...

Dylan Martin
Nov 11, 2015 at 6:41 pm
Nov 13, 2015 at 6:33 am

3	[ansible-project] Restart clustered service node by node?

Hi All ;) I currently am writing automation for a Percona Galera cluster which consists of 3 nodes. I am uploading a config file with: - name: upload my.cnf template: src=my.cnf.j2 dest=/etc/my.cnf ...

Rafał Radecki
Nov 10, 2015 at 4:48 pm
Nov 12, 2015 at 4:03 pm

3	[ansible-project] Problem with Conditional Imports

Hello, I have a problem with conditional variable imports. I am trying to set a variable based on operatingsystem release. For 'Solaris10' I want one value and for all others I want another another ...

Thomas Willert
Nov 11, 2015 at 3:48 pm
Nov 12, 2015 at 2:23 pm

3	[ansible-project] Allowed specific commands with NOPASSWD in sudoers file, Ansible complains...

Right now, sudo does not require a password. I edited my sudoers file so that it requires a password for everything except a few commands which Ansible runs during a deployment (using the ansible ...

Kristopher Linquist
Nov 9, 2015 at 10:55 pm
Nov 10, 2015 at 5:28 pm

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