ansible-playbook

I've been trying to get Ansible to provision a remote machine, and I want the remote machine to be set up with its own keys, and have the ability to clone git repositories from Bitbucket. The user is set up, has its own id_rsa.pub, and the key has been registered with bitbucket. But, when I use the Ansible Git module, it looks like the module always tries to use the keys from the machine running the playbook. How do I get the git module to use the id_rsa.pub from the remote machine? The relevant task is this: - name: be sure prom-king has an up-to-date clone of its own repository git: repo:

In Ansible 1.7, I can use --tags from the command-line to only run a subset of that playbooks tasks. But I'm wanting to bake into my playbook to run a set of roles with only tasks that match tags. That is, I don't want to have to pass this in via the command-line since it will be the same every time. At first I thought it was this command, but this does the opposite: tagging tasks with these tags instead of filtering them out based on this. roles: - { role: webserver, port: 5000, tags: [ 'web', 'foo' ] } I can imagine implementing this using conditionals but tags would be a much more elegant

I would like to set an ansible variable to some default value but only if the variable is undefined. Otherwise I would like to keep it unchanged. I tried these two approaches and both of them produce recursive loop: namespace: "{{namespace|default(default_namespace)}}" namespace: "{% if namespace is defined %}{{namespace}}{% else %}{{default_namespace}}{% endif %}" Henrik Pingel It seems like you are taking a wrong approach. Take a look at the Ansible documentation concerning variable precedence . It is a built-in feature of Ansible to use the default variable if the variable is not defined.

How can I get the current role name in an ansible task yaml file? I would like to do something like this --- # role/some-role-name/tasks/main.yml - name: Create a directory which is called like the current role name action: file path=/tmp/"{{ role_name }}" mode=0755 state=directory The result of this task should be a directory /tmp/some-role-name on the server jarv As of Ansible 2.2 : {{role_name}} As of Ansible 2.1 : {{role_path|basename}} Older versions: There is no way to do this in the current version of Ansible, here are a couple options that might work for you instead: 1) Use set_fact to