[ansible-project] ssh connection is broken while running task.

Hi, I have playbook which has 4 tasks on that. The task are running on more than 10 remote hosts. The first two tasks are ever running without any problem. But when the third task is running, The am getting error like "SSH Error: mux_client_hello_exchange: write packet: Broken pipe". It is not

[ansible-project] Fetch equivalent command in windows?

Hi I want to copy a file from windows client to Ansible controller machine (linux). I see fetch command which does that .What is the equivalent one for windows. I could not find it in the documentation Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[ansible-project] Re: [ansible-devel] Re: Ansible Core Public Meetings

Ah, excellent. Thanks for the pointer, Will On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 9:38:55 AM UTC+10, Brian Coca wrote: > > https://github.com/ansible/community/blob/master/MEETINGS.md > > > -- > Brian Coca > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[ansible-project] Re: lineinfile unexpected behavior

I understand the functionality of lineinfile a bit better now and solved this with... - name: uncomment a line lineinfile: backup=yes state=present dest=/etc/ssh/sshd_config regexp='^#?Banner' line='Banner /etc/issue.net' Also, it appears I can utilize the original regexp with a

[ansible-project] Re: [ansible-devel] Re: Ansible Core Public Meetings

https://github.com/ansible/community/blob/master/MEETINGS.md -- 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-project] Re: Ansible Core Public Meetings

On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 1:24:20 AM UTC+10, James Cammarata wrote: > > Hi all, > > The core team will be resuming our public team meetings starting tomorrow, > however with a bit of a change in format. > > Previously we had done them on a public hangout, we're now going to be > holding

[ansible-project] lineinfile unexpected behavior

I have the following in a playbook to uncomment a line. The first time I run it everything works fine. If I run it again it inserts a "Banner /etc/issue.net" at the EOF. Is there a better way to do this? - name: uncomment a line lineinfile: backup=yes state=present

[ansible-project] Re: Ansible AD Domain Authentication

Hi Mark, If you run a (sudo) pip list on your ansible controller what version is reported for the 'kerberos' library? For some reason, ansible is still falling back to using basic auth in your case. When I've seen that its either that the connection variables aren't getting set up, or

Re: [ansible-project] This isn't working for me -hosts: {{ hostvars['localhost']['mylist'] }} : hostvars is undefined

Hmm, looks promising but seems to be the opposite of what I want. I would want to create a new group ID that references an existing group. Another solution would be to dynamically create an extra-var or similar root/global scoped variable. Is there anything like set_extra_var with behaviour

Re: [ansible-project] pass ec2 tag to a task conditional

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/ec2_tag_module.html You will need to "list" the tags first of the instance to see what tags are set. Something like when: ec2_tags.tags.Application == 'my_app' should give you what you want. On 11 April 2016 at 14:57, Paul Stivers wrote:

Re: [ansible-project] This isn't working for me -hosts: {{ hostvars['localhost']['mylist'] }} : hostvars is undefined

Just want to make sure you've considered add_host http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/add_host_module.html On 12 April 2016 at 14:39, Larry Fast wrote: > Thanks Steve. This sounds very much like what I'm trying to do. In my > case I want to enforce some rules, defaults and

[ansible-project] New Modules Report, 12-Apr-2016

There are currently 150 modules waiting for inclusion in Ansible Extras. One of them might be useful to you! New modules this week: InfluxDB database module https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/2015 New AWS module for ec2 direct connect virtual interface facts

Re: [ansible-project] This isn't working for me -hosts: {{ hostvars['localhost']['mylist'] }} : hostvars is undefined

Not being helpful, but re-enforcing the (mis)behaviour using Ansible 2.0.2 For my case I was calling sts_assume_role on localhost (hosts:localhost) for get a different aws id, key and token seeing it's only an api call, then setting then using set_facts to set variables. In another play in the

[ansible-project] This isn't working for me -hosts: {{ hostvars['localhost']['mylist'] }} : hostvars is undefined

I'm trying to dynamically build the group of hosts that will be used in a play. I'm doing this within a hosts: localhost play. However hostvars seems to be undefined when evaluating the - hosts: line. Suggestions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [ansible-project] Syntax for running commands with braces in them

I must be close, but it's not working with uri module. Here's what I put in the role. Setting the uri_body as a fact beforehand and using "to_json" was an attempt to get around the error I'm getting, but that doesn't help either. - name: Set uri_body (workaround) set_fact: uri_body:

[ansible-project] Re: Async and expect module

You need to outdent async/poll args- those are task args, not module args (so they need to line up with name and "expect"). On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:09:15 AM UTC-7, David González Martínez wrote: > > I'm trying to use expect Ansible module to perform an interactive task in > a virtual

[ansible-project] Re: Syntax for running commands with braces in them

I ran into this problem too. If you don't happen to use the 'uri' module, it's the double quotes that need to be escaped, not the curly's... command: curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/_cluster/settings; -d'{ \"transient\" : { \"cluster.routing.allocation.enable\" : \"none\" } }' You need them

Re: [ansible-project] Ansbile fails to connect while ssh works

On 12.04.16 18:30 Jack Minardi wrote: > pi@raspberry:~ $ which python > > /usr/bin/python So it is installed. But maybe the PATH does not get set right? Ansible uses a non-interactive shell, so the PATH could vary between your user login via ssh and ansible's login. Look in the archives,

[ansible-project] Delete files from directory: delete all files except some special ones?

Hi all, excuse the subject, I'll try to explain: I can tell ansible to delete all files from a certain directory, at least I guess I can... But can I tell it to exclude certain files? I know I could use the synchronize module, which seems to be rsync in disguise. But it seems a bit ugly, to

Re: [ansible-project] Newbie: Need best practice advice on ansible used as configuration manager.

On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 1:50:34 AM UTC+8, Johannes Kastl wrote: > > > In your situation I would avoid having separate configuration files as > much as possible. I would go for a template for e.g. smb.conf, that > fits all hosts. I would guess this file is rather similar on all your >

Re: [ansible-project] Re: Breaking up hosts file

Perhaps I'm inching closer. Can I pick up the target from somewhere else? Or have target in the hosts file in some way that ansible will know to use it instead of having to add it to the command line? Thanks! On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 1:05 PM, ananta.c via Ansible Project <

Re: [ansible-project] Re: Breaking up hosts file

Every system can have multiple interfaces ( so, multiple mac,ip address etc ) . That is the reason I have values of mac,ip, etc in the host_vars referenced in below playbook. https://github.com/ac427/my_cm/blob/master/ansible/playbooks/add_node On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 12:58:30 PM

Re: [ansible-project] Syntax for running commands with braces in them

Should have known, there's always a module to do what I want better. Thanks very much I'll try this out! On Tuesday, 12 April 2016 09:42:09 UTC-6, Matt Martz wrote: > > I know this isn't really a direct answer to your question, but why not use > the `uri` module instead? > > - uri: > url:

[ansible-project] Re: How to run ansible playbook with Bamboo or jenkins

We have ssh keys established between our Jenkins server and our Ansible server. Then in the Jenkins job, we have an Execute Shell command with an entry like so... ssh ansible@ansible_server_address -C "cd ~ansible/playbooks;ansible-playbook -i hostsfile site.yml --extra-vars "whatever vars

Re: [ansible-project] Re: Breaking up hosts file

I'm afraid I'm still a YAML newbie and that syntax still has me baffled. I see the files in your hosts_var directory, but your variables are not simply: label: var_value There seem to be a couple of extra layers and I don't follow why they are there. Why this: interfaces: auto: ip:

[ansible-project] Re: Ansible AD Domain Authentication

Hi Anjana Where exactly on you putting those varibales [win:var]? Are you putting those variables in /etc/ansible/hosts file? Im still getting the following error: fatal: [server.COMPANY.COM]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "ssl: 401 Unauthorized."} I have changed my groups_vars file

Re: [ansible-project] Ansbile fails to connect while ssh works

pi@raspberry:~ $ which python /usr/bin/python pi@raspberry:~ $ which python2 /usr/bin/python2 pi@raspberry:~ $ which python2.7 /usr/bin/python2.7 pi@raspberry:~ $ dpkg -l|grep python ii dh-python 1.2014-2 all

[ansible-project] Re: Windows authentication

Ansible 2.1 is scheduled to ship with NTLM authentication support (when paired with an updated version of pywnirm)- this *should* work on a CIS-hardened image correctly. There are coordinated changes we've been making to a number of upstream projects (pywinrm, requests_ntlm, requests_kerberos)

[ansible-project] Re: How to run ansible playbook with Bamboo or jenkins

There is an ansible plugin for jenkins, but there is no option to run on remote host ( I may be wrong) . I created jenkins role and was able to run ansible playbook via ssh-agent . Please check the readme file in my github and let me know your feedback

Re: [ansible-project] Re: Breaking up hosts file

for host related stuff you can put in host_vars check this out https://github.com/ac427/my_cm/tree/master/ansible for reference to host_vars and group_vars On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 11:39:36 AM UTC-4, thanstra wrote: > > I'm still missing the syntax and file naming for this. > > First

Re: [ansible-project] Syntax for running commands with braces in them

I know this isn't really a direct answer to your question, but why not use the `uri` module instead? - uri: url: "http://localhost:9200/_cluster/settings; method: PUT body: transient: cluster.routing.allocation.enable: "none" body_format: json On Tue, Apr 12, 2016

Re: [ansible-project] Re: Breaking up hosts file

I'm still missing the syntax and file naming for this. First off, can I create multiple files in group_vars and have them all read? If so, what are the best naming conventions. Can I have names: host1.yml host2.yml etc. with a separate file for each host? And, if so, what does the content of

[ansible-project] Syntax for running commands with braces in them

I am trying to execute a task that runs the following command (which includes a number of quote, brackets, colons, etc): command: curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/_cluster/settings; -d'{ "transient" : { "cluster.routing.allocation.enable" : "none" } }' I tried escaping all the quotes and {},

[ansible-project] Ansible 2.0.2 RC4 is available for testing

Hi all, we have released Ansible 2.0.2 RC4 to address a few more last minute bugs: * A very rare yet nagging issue ( https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/15342), which appears to be related to a bug in certain versions of sshd itself. The fix for this minimizes the potential situations in

[ansible-project] How to run ansible playbook with Bamboo or jenkins

I want to execute an ansible playbook using Bamboo or jenkins. However the build failed because i can't pass the ssh password . Have you any idea please ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

[ansible-project] Async and expect module

I'm trying to use expect Ansible module to perform an interactive task in a virtual machine. The module works, but the task is very long and I have problems with the timeout. I get an error like this. I tried to use async but it fails and returns this error: [0;32mqemu: fatal: [deploy]:

[ansible-project] unarchive task works with root user but fails with other users

Hi all, I'm trying to run a playbook but I'm having some trouble. If in the playbook I have: - name: spark installation playbook hosts: SPARK become_user: root become: yes vars: spark_folder_name: "spark-1.6.0-bin-hadoop2.6" tasks: - name: unarchiving the zip file

[ansible-project] Re: Breaking up hosts file

You can create group_vars directory http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html#group-variables On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 9:26:42 AM UTC-4, thanstra wrote: > > I currently have been putting both hosts and host related variables into > the /etc/ansible/hosts file with variables

[ansible-project] Re: Windows authentication

Hi, Perhaps you can use User Data feature of AWS to achieve this. Might be worth reading this if you have not seen it already: https://www.ansible.com/blog/easily-provision-windows Jon On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 2:51:05 PM UTC+1, Anjana Raghavendra P wrote: > > Hi, > > We are using CIS

[ansible-project] Re: Breaking up hosts file

Create /etc/ansible/host_vars and /etc/ansible/group_vars Create group vars files like /etc/ansible/group_vars/myhosts.yml and enter variables for your 'myhosts' group in the myhosts.yml file. Remember that these are YAML files, so vars need to be in the form key: value NOT key=value Hope

Re: [ansible-project] Re: Ansible AD Domain Authentication

Anjana, I have not seen this error before but please advise the following: version of whichever python-kerberos libraries you are using on your ansible controller (see http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_windows.html#installing-python-kerberos-dependencies) version of the python kerberos

[ansible-project] Breaking up hosts file

I currently have been putting both hosts and host related variables into the /etc/ansible/hosts file with variables such as this: [myhosts] host1 host2 [host1] host1.domain [host1:vars] var1="Some data" var2="Some other data" tag1=myTag [host2] host2.domain [host2:vars] ... etc. This all

[ansible-project] Re: Facing issues with WinRM connection

Do you have the legacy winrm connectors set up (winrm originally listened on ports 80 (http) and 443 (https)? If you don't need these, then please remove them - there is an open defect regarding handling legacy listeners which stops the setup module from gathering facts. If you do need the

[ansible-project] Re: provision instance on AZURE

Not sure what your specific problem is but there is a bunch of work being done on the Azure side of things at the moment with new modules being worked on at the moment. Have a look at these Pull Requests on github - perhaps you can help out with testing?

[ansible-project] raw commands to appliances with limited SSH support

We are trying to issue a command to a storage appliance we have, I have setup the raw module but I am getting /bin/sh does not exist errors, how can I stop ansible executing the command as /bin/sh -c 'command rather than just sending "command", Annoyingly ansible even reports the command as

[ansible-project] Re: Correct way to generate and use per host user passwords + possible regression

oppertunity to shameless plug my own lookup ;) But if you convert to password-store for storing and creating passwords you could use my lookup plugin which does all this. (except for the part of reencrypting it with sha256, just file an issue) https://github.com/morphje/ansible_pass_lookup If

Re: [ansible-project] rpmbuild of ansible tarball results in error: line 9: Illegal char '$' in: Version: $VERSION

For reference: make rpm -- 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-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [ansible-project] template not expanded after upgrading from 1.7 to 2.0.1.0

Am Dienstag, 12. April 2016 06:07:52 UTC+2 schrieb Brian Coca: > > hostvars is not a dict anymore, so .keys() might not work > That's it! Thank you so much. If I replace hostvars.keys() with groups['servers'] it works! Using unsupported ways to access internal data structures (.keys()) should

Re: [ansible-project] template not expanded after upgrading from 1.7 to 2.0.1.0

Am Montag, 11. April 2016 21:35:34 UTC+2 schrieb Johannes Kastl: > > On 11.04.16 11:22 seb@gmail.com wrote: > > > The template in question sits in a sub directory called check_mk, and I > > call it like this: > > > > ansible-playbook check_mk/gen_check_mk_config.yml > > Does calling