I have written a workflow file, that prepares the runner to connect to the desired server with ssh, so that I can run an ansible playbook. ssh -t -v theUser@theHost shows me that the SSH connection works. The ansible sript…
Looking for assistance with an odd error I am troubleshooting with a playbook. I have a working SSH session to a switch, but having difficulty with transferring files via SCP on Ansible. I can start a SCP session directly from…
I'd like to set a common_apt_packages list based on OS distribution, so I've used jinja2 if condition as the script below, but the return common_apt_packages type is AnsibleUnsafeText - hosts: localhost vars: common_apt_packages_ubuntu_22_04: - ack-grep - acl - apt-transport-https -…
I think something changed somewhere ( not sure if at clients servers because they are newer releases) but suddenly my tasks using the package module are failing because of gpg signature check at Oracle linux and Rhel servers . I…
I am setting up Ansible as a newbie. I would like to group a few tasks under an Nginx role. See my folder structure The only way I could get this to work is to use include statements in my…
This seems like a silly question to ask, but I'm struggling to create a compressed archive using ansible then copying that to a remote host. I'm receiving an error that the target directory/file doesn't exist during a copy task. I've…
I am new to using molecule and want to enable molecule for my ansible content. This content is a folder containing three playbooks and a folder roles with 8 roles which are used in the playbooks. The playbooks run without…
I have a simple playbook that I run on new managed nodes for Ansible the playbook has 3 roles : create ansible admin user on destination host , copy ssh key , sets sudo no passwd for ansible user I…
This is my task. - name: Ensure fail2ban is running and enabled. ansible.builtin.service: name: fail2ban state: started enabled: true I am getting this error. 'fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "get_service_tools not implemented on target platform"}' Need help!! Thanks…
I'm trying to install postgresql on my remote host using Ansible. I have 2 solutions, but both work only half as I expect them to work/turn out. 1. Solution one (using Ansible apt_repository module); - name: Get Postgres latest repository…