When I run commands on my ansible 2.9 version on red hat 7 distro – The first command succeeds while second one fails. Is it related to special characters. My program automatically generates passwords, so just one time escape won’t help! NB: The BaSh shell also would throw some errors, if you try …
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Error using expect to execute shell script
I am using an expect script to automatically answer prompts in a shell script designed to add Linux systems to active directory. I only have three prompts: location, username, password. I am using Ansible to execute it. The issue when the script executes, it tries to install ~ 49 rpms on the vm, adcli, realmd…
How to use Ansible to add Linux environment variables
I’m trying to add environment variables to a Linux machine using vars like below: I’m using this task to add the variables to /etc/environment. But I’m getting the error below: What am I missing here? Answer The playbook below works as expected and created the file I only added the parameter…
Install packages from a list through ansible
I have 2 servers named testserver and vsphere server. Ansible is installed on testserver and I have a list of packages stored in a text file packages.txt. How can I install those packages on vsphere server through ansible? This is my packages.txt file. I just have to fetch the package name from the packages.t…
ansible ansible_default_ipv4 set wrong interface
I am trying to configure a host and automatically select the relevant interface. For that I am trying to run the Ansible task: For some reason it stores in network_interfaces_to_configure an interface that is deactivated — it sets it to enp1s0f1 and it should be set to enp1s0f0 The host have the following int…
Ansible win_updates won’t work on Debian 11 /(“msg”: “winrm put_file failed; nstdout: Active code page: 1252r)
I am fairly new to Ansible and have now started automating some repetitive Windows administration tasks. As a controller I use a Debian 11 VM where I have only Ansible and pywinrm installed. My test target is a Windows Server 2016 and everything works fine, I can install programs, create users or copy files. …
Ansible Replace the string variable in uri module
I want to download the filebeat7.15.2 binaries form artifactory. I am passing the version in my playbook as 7-15-2, but want to change in the playbook to 7.15.2 in uri module only. My binary is stored in example.com/artifactory/mvn-public-local/com/dbdb/rf/devops/filebeat/7-15-2/filebeat-7.15.2-linux-x86_64.t…
unable to copy file from local machine to ec2 instance in ansible playbook
So I am running scp -i ~/Downloads/ansible-benchmark.pem ~/Documents/cis-playbook/section-1.yaml ubuntu@ec2-18-170-77-90.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:~/etc/ansible/playbooks/ to transfer an ansible playbook I created with VSCODE the section-1.yaml file, but I am coming up with an error scp: /home/ubuntu/et…
Ansible Role – Multiple Local RPM’s Installation Not Working
I have an ansible role to install local rpm’s, and it’s downloaded in the files folder location. When I execute the ansible-playbook command it says “No Rpm found” Role tasks/main.yml Getting the below error message Give a suggestion on this plz Answer To install a package on the targe…
Cannot convert string to boolean – ansible to powershell on linux
I read this whole thread about how to pass boolean values to a parameter to powershell on Linux. Nothing worked for me. My code in Ansible is as follows: I’ve used many variants, such as -ParticipateInCEIP:False, or -ParticipateInCEIP False, or -ParticipateInCEIP $false, but I get always the same error,…