Ansible

Convert Ansible inventory format from TOML to YAML.

Automate encryption and decryption of Ansible vault using multiple identities.

Automate encryption and decryption of Ansible vault using a single password.

Wait for service activation during Ansible playbook execution.

Lookup specific element in Ansible dictionary or list of these.

Execute multiple Ansible tasks once per group and use a dedicated variable to store custom data.

Wait until service is stopped or running inside ansible playbook.

Define cluster groups in Ansible inventory.

Create Ansible filters to work with Apache Flume configuration.

Create an additional Ansible role to dynamically set Ansible SSH user depending on the defined conditionals.

I have already described how to combine group variables by parsing group configuration files, so today I will describe how to combine group variables with specific names.

Group variables are overwritten, not merged, this is an expected behaviour, but can be circumvented by parsing group configuration files.

Display Ansible configuration settings that have changed from the default.

Use JUnit callback plugin to store and Allure Framework to visualize ansible playbook events.

Access required ansible facts regardless of the target limits on a particular run.

Increase the number of connection attempts when using ansible utility.

Disable auditd daemon during operating system image build process to prevent unnecessary log spikes.

Instruct Ansible to use a specific version of Python interpreter on the remote host.