ansible-playbook

Currently my playbook structure is like this: ~/test_ansible_roles ❯❯❯ tree . . ├── checkout_sources │ └── tasks │ └── main.yml ├── install_dependencies │ └── tasks │ └── main.yml ├── make_dirs │ └── tasks │ └── main.yml ├── setup_machine.yml One of the roles that I have is to install dependencies on my box, so for this I need sudo . Because of that all of my other tasks I need to include the stanza: become: yes become_user: my_username Is there a better way to do this ? You can set the become options per: playbook role task Per playbook: - hosts: whatever become: yes become_user: my_username

Is it possible to apply a list of items to multiple tasks in an Ansible playbook? To give an example: - name: download and execute hosts: server1 tasks: - get_url: url="some-url/{{item}}" dest="/tmp/{{item}}" with_items: - "file1.sh" - "file2.sh" - shell: /tmp/{{item}} >> somelog.txt with_items: - "file1.sh" - "file2.sh" Is there some syntax to avoid the repetition of the item-list? As of today you can use with_items with include , so you'd need to split your playbook into two files: - name: download and execute hosts: server1 tasks: - include: subtasks.yml file={{item}} with_items: - "file1

i am using ansible to update configuration file of newly added NIC for that i have defined some variables in separate yml file /tmp/ip.yml #first interface interface1: eth1 bootproto1: static ipaddress1: 192.168.211.249 netmask1: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 192.168.211.2 DNS1: 192.168.211.2 #second interface interface2: eth2 bootproto2: static ipaddress2: 10.0.0.100 netmask2: 255.0.0.0 Playbook - include_vars: /tmp/ip.yml - name: configuring interface lineinfile: state=present create=yes dest=/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-{{interface1}} regexp="{{ item.regexp }}" line="{{ item.line }}" with