[ansible-project] Passing a list on the command line

Is it possible to pass a list as an extra-vars variable on the command line? I have tried various syntax but it doesn't work. E.g. ansible-playbook my_playbook.yml -i local --extra-vars roles_to_deploy=role1,role2 ansible-playbook my_playbook.yml -i local --extra-vars roles_to_deploy=[role1,ro

Re: [ansible-project] Tiered application start/stop orchestration ordering

Hi Jeff, I can only agree with Michael here - playbooks describe ordering of operations for a specific operational purpose and as far as I know role dependencies will not get you there in the scenario you describe. The way I usually do this is to think of splitting my roles into two. You generall

Re: [ansible-project] module is missing interpreter line during ansible file copy

Thanks, I was trying to replace the default file with 0440 rights, thats why i got this error. I copied it with different filename in same path, works like a charm! On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 4:17:17 PM UTC+2, tkuratomi wrote: > > This sounds like some sort of bug or misconfiguration. Ansibl

[ansible-project] Re: Using Ansible to update Windows servers

What happens if you reboot the box? I haven't tried this myself but I've seen windows delay applying updates until shutdown (and I think following a reboot too in some cases). Might need a bit of work judging by the comments but there is a win_reboot module which you could try. https://github.

[ansible-project] Re: Using Ansible to update Windows servers

Hi, Jon. I appreciate the response, and certainly will look into your suggestions. I'm using version 1.8.4. As I've continued to hack away, I've got this to work, kind of: ansible somehost -m win_updates -a category:security The output looks like this: somehostb | success >> { "changed":

[ansible-project] Re: Using Ansible to update Windows servers

Hi Dimitri, A few others have reported StackOverflow and OutOfMemory exceptions on unpatched Server 2008 machines - see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/8345#issuecomment-52074837 for a hotfix that worked for me. By the way you can put any custom modules you want to use in your /etc/a

Re: [ansible-project] Keeping old Ansible PPA repo versions

apt repos allow this but as far as I can tell it does not work for PPAs, we can have diff package per arch or target distro .. but not sure if that will even be possible as a work around for this. -- Brian Coca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "An

Re: [ansible-project] Keeping old Ansible PPA repo versions

After unsuccessfully looking around for instructions on the internet I took a look at what other PPAs were doing. I'm not a Ubuntu/Debian user but I wasn't able to find any PPAs that have multiple versions (there are packages for multiple ubuntu releases but not multiple versions of the package fo

Re: [ansible-project] Re: Intelligent loop for yum packages installation

Hi Frederick/Dylan I have the same problem. The repo query is being made to every single build of a package, thus making the yum install several mins. I did set the keepcache to 1 in /etc/yum.conf. but that did not fix the issue. Could you share what those settings exactly are? Thanks Bala

Re: [ansible-project] -b and password prompting in ansible 1.9

I was actually planning to soften the restriction and allow -K to work with -b -- Brian Coca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-proj

Re: [ansible-project] Keeping old Ansible PPA repo versions

We still haven't been able to find a PPA setting to disable the auto delete (or to restore the previous version? There must be a toplevel menu for configuring PPAs that we just aren't seeing...). As a temporary solution you can grab the old .deb from here: https://launchpad.net/~ansible/+archive/u

[ansible-project] -b and password prompting in ansible 1.9

I usually use ansible with the "-sK" flags (use sudo, and ask for sudo password). Now I've noticed the new "-b" flag. So I wanted to use it, but I'm told I can't use "-b" and "-K" together. So I have to type: -b --ask-become-pass Is there a plan to introduce a short form for --ask-become-pass?

Re: [ansible-project] Keeping old Ansible PPA repo versions

Okay, great. Thanks for the clarification, Brian. On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 10:12:57 AM UTC-5, Brian Coca wrote: > > No, the 1.8.4 issue was not expected, we are looking into it, it seems > that previous versions were just removed, 1.8.4 SHOULD remain > available. > > > > -- > Brian Coca

Re: [ansible-project] Tiered application start/stop orchestration ordering

Let me try to better illustrate my question with a more concrete example. Imagine an app Foo that has two tiers: Apache and MySQL. Each tier is a role with start and stop tasks. These tasks are tagged appropriately. Foo lists Apache and MySQL as its contained roles. Starting the app is as simpl

Re: [ansible-project] Keeping old Ansible PPA repo versions

Ansible 1.8.4 is still available, we've just always had our pip settings configured to "hide" older releases. You can still install the older version by specifying it to pip: pip install ansible==1.8.4 James Cammarata Director, Ansible Core Engineering github: jimi-c On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10

Re: [ansible-project] Keeping old Ansible PPA repo versions

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Rob Zienert wrote: > With the regressions in 1.9.0 related to the s3 module[0], I think the > Ansible package repos really need to keep more than the HEAD stable version > in its versions list. When 1.9.0 was released yesterday, all of my company's > playbooks brok

Re: [ansible-project] Keeping old Ansible PPA repo versions

No, the 1.8.4 issue was not expected, we are looking into it, it seems that previous versions were just removed, 1.8.4 SHOULD remain available. -- Brian Coca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group a

[ansible-project] Re: Have ansible manage the contents of a directory (including subdirectories)

Also should have included this in the initial postI would prefer to not have to use the synchronize module as that requires rsync on both machines. On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 10:59:16 AM UTC-4, Mark Raider wrote: > > I am having difficulty figuring out how to have ansible manage the cont

Re: [ansible-project] Keeping old Ansible PPA repo versions

So, in a normal usecase, 1.8.4 would've remained available? My concern isn't 1.9.0 vs 1.9.0.1, but that the last minor version is kept available. On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 10:00:29 AM UTC-5, Brian Coca wrote: > > The issue with 1.9.0 and 1.9.0.1 was caused by not being able to > upload a fi

Re: [ansible-project] Keeping old Ansible PPA repo versions

The issue with 1.9.0 and 1.9.0.1 was caused by not being able to upload a file with the same version to pypy, initially an incomplete tarball was uploaded, once we realized the error and deleted it we were forced to change the version number to be able to release as pypy does not allow overwriting

[ansible-project] Have ansible manage the contents of a directory (including subdirectories)

I am having difficulty figuring out how to have ansible manage the content of a directory, including subdirectories. For example.. if I have the following example_top_level_dir/ -> subdir1 -> subdir2 And I remove the subdir2 from Ansible...I want that reflected on the remote mach

[ansible-project] syntax error with lineinfile

I'm getting an unbalance quote error on this short playbook. I'm not seeing the error --- - hosts: devcluster remote_user: ansible sudo: yes tasks: -name: add jmx host entry to devjboss cluster action: lineinfile dest="/etc/hosts" backup=yes state="present" insertafter="mydomain

[ansible-project] Keeping old Ansible PPA repo versions

With the regressions in 1.9.0 related to the s3 module[0], I think the Ansible package repos really need to keep more than the HEAD stable version in its versions list. When 1.9.0 was released yesterday, all of my company's playbooks broke since we make extensive use of S3 - so right now we can

[ansible-project] Using Ansible to update Windows servers

All, I've got Ansible working on a few Windows 2008 servers. The Ansible command server runs CentOS 6. I'm trying to get the module "win_updates" working, but am not having much success. I'd like to be able to run this both via the command line, and via a playbook. The extant documentation

[ansible-project] Re: yet another question about loops

Thanks, Dan! I've managed to do what I wanted with you help. I ended up with: setting hash_behaviour = merge in ansible.cfg group_vars/all users: user1: comment: "user1" state: "present" groups: - "wheel" - "dvp" authorized: - "ssh-rsa 111" - "ssh-rsa 222"

Re: [ansible-project] Extending YAML to support {{ at the beginning of a value

I guess there is a possibility that we create our own loader/scanner/parser. But in the end, I don't really care, I don't find it hard to remember to wrap ninja statements in quotes. On another note, this is more suited for ansible-devel and not ansible-project. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:35 AM,

[ansible-project] Dynamic variables when looping over a list in a role

I've seen a few threads about looping over a list on a role, and the currently preferred method seems to be to pass the list as a variable and do the looping in each task. My problem is that I not only want to use each variable as is, but also construct new variables based on logic over multipl

[ansible-project] Support for running commands in different namespaces remotely

Is any work beeing done on enabling running a task in a remote namespace (setns)? Reason I am asking is I have a network oob namespace sshd is running in, and for some of the ansible tasks I would like beeing able to specify for example: - namespace: netns=default ..which should cause all comma

Re: [ansible-project] Extending YAML to support {{ at the beginning of a value

I agree that forking is not a very good option for such a little addition, though the YAML Python library hasn't been updated for 6 years, so there's no risk missing a big upstream update anyway. On the other hand, your answer is not really helpful here. What would be the optimal solution to av

Re: [ansible-project] Pull galaxy requirements in tower

for tower related questions please email supp...@ansible.com On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Nils De Moor wrote: > Hi, > > For quite a while we are happy users of Ansible Tower. > Now, we are refactoring our playbooks and roles and want to make everything > more modular, by leveraging galaxy and

[ansible-project] Pull galaxy requirements in tower

Hi, For quite a while we are happy users of Ansible Tower. Now, we are refactoring our playbooks and roles and want to make everything more modular, by leveraging galaxy and having separate repositories per role and a main repository with a requirements file. As far as we can test, Tower does

Re: [ansible-project] Extending YAML to support {{ at the beginning of a value

I would saying forking the YAML module is an absolutely terrible idea. On Thursday, March 26, 2015, Warren Seine wrote: > Hi, > > Ansible handles pretty well the incompatibility between YAML and Jinja > templates with a nice, informative, explicit error message. I suppose this > is so because wr

[ansible-project] Re: Trying to create ansible playbook to reboot servers and getting an error

Thanks for the hint Serge - you put me on the right track to the solution. As you rightly said there was more needed in the yml file Here is the working one. --- - hosts: all sudo: yes tasks: - name: restart server command: /sbin/reboot async: 0 poll: 0 ignore_err

[ansible-project] Extending YAML to support {{ at the beginning of a value

Hi, Ansible handles pretty well the incompatibility between YAML and Jinja templates with a nice, informative, explicit error message. I suppose this is so because writing foo: {{ bar }} is an extremely common pattern and most users face the error. The workaround is simple but still, annoying.