Ansible – The fetch module to retrieve files
While the copy module helps to copy a file from the controller node to managed nodes, the fetch module helps to retrieve files from a managed […]
Month: March 2024
Ansible – Blocks, Rescue and Error Handling
Usually the Handlers work with a single task. However the “blocks” feature in Ansible helps us to group multiple tasks under one block section and […]
Ansible – Error Handling
Do not misunderstand the concept error handling in this document with error handling in usual software programming terminology. Usually when one writes a program, a […]
Ansible – Enabling Handlers – Success handlers
At times when certain tasks are executed by a playbook, it may be desired to run certain other task immediately. However, if the first task did […]
Ansible: Playbook running task based on condition
At times one may want to run certain tasks or command only if certain conditions are met. For example add a user called “RedhatUser01” only […]
Ansible: Run playbook looping values in variable
At times you may want to execute a single tasks with multiple variable values one after the other. For example create 3 user accounts using […]
Ansible – Modules and functions examples in playbooks
This document is indented to demonstrate various playbooks that makes use of different modules and their functionalities. Pinging managed nodes [root@centos9vm ~]# cat inventory ====== […]
Ansible doc – Documentation for help
Ansible got a set of modules that will allow playbooks to run different operations in managed nodes. This includes configurations to install yum packages using […]
Ansible : Templates – Jinja2
Ansible templates allows users to dynamically generate text-based files using templates, variables, and facts for configuration and other purposes. The difference between Ansible Facts and […]