Ansible yum module equivalent of rpm -i –force
emmdee asked: I am trying to make Ansible force install an rpm package to overwrite an existing one. This works: – name: RPM force install nodesource and yum clean all …
Unsupported parameters for the copy module in Ansible
Anshul Choudhary asked: I am trying to copy couple of files from my local to remote server and getting this error: “ansible_loop_var”: “item”, “changed”: false, “checksum”: “7fc8ff2de203d603caf90e2b50a557cf176e5b3d”, “diff”: [], “invocation”: …
Is it insecure to have an ansible user with passwordless sudo?
lonix asked: I’m new to Ansible. Most VPS provisioning guides I’ve seen so far do this: disable root from logging in create a new user who can only log in …
Make a list of up servers and pass that list to work with my actual playbook?
user5447339 asked: I have an ansible playbook as shown below and it works fine most of the times. But recently what I am noticing is it is getting stuck on …
How do I decide when to use Ansible gcp_pd vs. gcp_compute_disk?
John McGehee asked: I want to create a standard persistent disk, format and mount it on multiple VM instances. There are two Ansible tasks that create persistent disks: gcp_pd and …
ANSIBLE how tofix misspelled module name openssh_keypair
gremlintv2 asked: For this task: – name: “Generate ssh keypair” openssh_keypair: path: /tmp/ddd_id_rsa Get this error: ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or …
very detailed inventory selection with Ansible
scphantm asked: I am designing a new ansible implement on an existing system. The existing system is a large hardware test platform. I need to be able to do things …
Using Ansible, how can I take actions on each file in a specific location?
GuillaumeN asked: I’m building playbooks to deploy a Windows application that requires some prerequisites (Visual C++ runtimes and dotNet framework) to be installed before the application itself. These prerequisites are …
Are there any best practices around moving config files in Ansible?
Calum Halpin asked: I have a role for configuring nginx. As you’d expect, it adds files to a directory that is then included by the main config file. I’ve started …
Adding firewalld to existing infrastructure with minimal downtime
Alex asked: I have a mixed Ubuntu 16.04/Ubuntu 18.04 based infrastructure and would like to set up and configure firewalld on hosts. I am going to use an Ansible role …