Roles are a good way to organize ansible playbooks. Roles allow group the tasks, handlers, files, templates and variable definitions. Following…
[Ansible] – Using the module template and jinja files to update hosts
The module template is helpful to create contents in the hosts. Jinja allows work by creating dynamically contents as the…
[Ansible] – How to create a code implementation similar to try catch statements?
To attend this need Ansible provides the attribute block as follows. tasks: – block: # Add here the tasks/actions rescue:…
[Ansible] – How to work with errors? How to ignore and or create conditionals to fail?
Ignore errors To ignore errors use the attribute ignore_errors as the following example. – name: be sure ntp is installed yum:…
[Ansible] – How to use tags?
Tags is an attribute which can be used to allow or not run some tasks when just some specific tag…
[Ansible] – Understanding Handlers
Handlers are used to trigger actions when the tasks are executed. For example, in the case of being required to…
[Ansible] – How to create conditionals? How to just run a task when and/or if?
Use the attribute when to define that some task can just be executed when some conditional be attended. Following an…
[Ansible] – How to create loops?
Simple loop To create loops the attribute with_items is used to define that the action/task will be performed for all items…
[Ansible] – How to include tasks and variables file definitions?
It is possible to create files with tasks and variables definitions to reuse in many playbooks. To use them in…
[Ansible] – Understanding Ansible facts
What are Ansible Facts? Ansible facts are variables that automatically are obtained for example the hostname, the network interfaces, the version of the operating…
