ansible-playbook

I'm looking for advice. I have the following code that creates a list dynamically that I can then later use in a template. This is a copy of the test code I put together - for the actual role I just added the admins|regex_replace variable into the j2 template. --- - hosts: localhost gather_facts: false vars: # define empty admins var first so ansible doesn't complain admins: admin_accounts: - name: john uid: 1000 group: sysadmin shell: /bin/bash comment: "Unix Administrator" - name: paul uid: 1001 group: sysadmin shell: /bin/bash comment: "Unix Administrator" - name: george uid: 1002 group:

I am using Ansible and I want to run a task only once. I follow the documentation about how to configure and run a task only once - name: apt update shell: apt-get update run_once: true But when I run Ansible, it always runs this task. How can I run my task only once. The run_once option will run every time your Playbook/tasks runs, but will only run it once during the specific run itself. So every time you run the play, it will run, but only on the first host in the list. If you're looking for a way to only run that command once, period, you'll need to use the creates argument. Using your

Looking for help with a problem I've been struggling with for a few hours. I want to iterate over a list, run a command, register the output for each command and then iterate with debug over each unique registers {{ someregister }}.stdout For example, the following code will spit out "msg": "1" and "msg": "2" --- - hosts: localhost gather_facts: false vars: numbers: - name: "first" int: "1" - name: "second" int: "2" tasks: - name: Register output command: "/bin/echo {{ item.int }}" register: result with_items: "{{ numbers }}" - debug: msg={{ item.stdout }} with_items: "{{ result.results }}" If

In this list of mysql db modules for Ansbile, there's one for creating a db, or creating a user, etc. I would like to run a query against a pre-existing table and use the results of that query to populate an Ansible variable (list of IP addresses, and node type) upon which I would run different tasks, depending on node type. How can that be done in Ansible? This is approximately how to do it (but it is untested): - name: Retrieve stuff from mysql command: > mysql --user=alice --password=topsecret dbname --host=147.102.160.1 --batch --skip-column-names --execute="SELECT stuff from stuff_table"

I'm working in a project, and we use ansible to create a deploy a cluster of servers. One of the tasks that I've to implement, is to copy a local file to the remote host, only if that file exists locally. Now I'm trying to solve this problem using this - hosts: 127.0.0.1 connection: local tasks: - name: copy local filetocopy.zip to remote if exists - shell: if [[ -f "../filetocopy.zip" ]]; then /bin/true; else /bin/false; fi; register: result - copy: src=../filetocopy.zip dest=/tmp/filetocopy.zip when: result|success Bu this is failing with the following message: ERROR: 'action' or 'local

I am liitle new to ansible so bear with me if my questions are a bit basic. Scenario: I have a few group of Remote hosts such as [EPCs] [Clients] and [Testers] I am able to configure them just the way I want them to be. Problem: I need to write a playbook, which when runs, asks the user for the inventory at run time. As an example when a playbook is run the user should be prompted in the following way: "Enter the number of EPCs you want to configure" "Enter the number of clients you want to configure" "Enter the number of testers you want to configure" What should happen: Now for instance the