On 1/14/21 7:50 AM, Spadajspadaj wrote: > And again I have a non-typical use case. > > How would you approach such task? I have some servers on which there is a > piece of software running that's not > configured by me and thus I can't control the configuration with ansible. But > I need to be able to make sure that for > every entry in its configuration I make sure that something is done on the > host. > > For example (this is not this case; just for explanation what I mean) - > someone else is responsible for creating users > on the machine (or the users are created remotely and authenticated and > authorized using pam_ldap and nss_ldap for > example) and I can list them with gentent. I need to make sure that for each > user I have a directory created on a host. > > That would involve running a command on the remote host side (in our case - > getent) to get an output, and then iterating > over this output to make sure the directories are created. > > Of course I could just do a remote command and do a script to be run on the > remote side but it kinda defeats the purpose > of having ansible in the first place. > > Any better ideas? > > Hmm... maybe doing a remote command, registering output and then looping a > task over it? I'm not sure though how to > split the result that I register in a variable into single lines. >
Ansible (and related software) helps you to ensure a system status that is
defined by the tasks you run for that host,
so ideally it works also when the installation and configuration isn't
performed by Ansible.
I think it is a good idea to use Ansible modules whenever possible, and only
fallback to commmand and shell (use that
only at last resort) if not.
But it would be good if you describe concrete case we can help you with.
Regards
Racke
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