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--- ansible [2026/03/01 11:39] – [Inventory and Config] reddy
+++ ansible [2026/03/01 19:14] (current) – reddy
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 </code>
-==== Inventory and Config ====
+===== Inventory and Config =====
 The config is read from: ANSIBLE_CONFIG, ./ansible.cfg, ~/ansible.cfg, /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
+Ansible will not automatically load a config file from the current working directory if the directory is world-writable.
 <code>
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 [web]
-webserver1 ansible_connection=ssh ansible_host=webserver1.localdomain ansible_port=2022 ansible_user=webadmin
+webserver1 ansible_host=webserver1.localdomain ansible_port=2022 ansible_user=webadmin
 localhost ansible_connection=local
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 #ansible_ssh_pass=mypass
 #ansible_become_pass=mypass
+# Before Ansible 2.0, ansible_user was ansible_ssh_user
 </code>
+===== Executing =====
+For ad-hoc execution:
+<code>
+ansible localhost -m ansible.builtin.gather_facts  # Test
+ansible -i inventory all -m shell -a 'echo "A"'  # Execute a shell command
+ansible -a 'some_command'  # The module defaults to "command" (instead of "shell")
+ansible -i inventory all -m shell -a 'echo "A"' --limit server1  # To run only on server 1
+# -f 5  # To run 5 tasks at a time
+</code>
+For playbook execution:
+<code>
+ansible-playbook playbook1.yaml
+</code>
+===== Playbooks =====
+<code>
+---
+- name: Play 1
+  become: true
+  hosts: all
+  tasks:
+    - name: Task 1
+      yum_repository:
+        name: epel
+        description: epel yum repo
+        baseurl: https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/$releasever/$basearch/
+        gpgcheck: no
+    - name: Task 2
+      dnf:
+        name: httpd
+        state: latest  # present|absent|latest
+    - name: Task 2
+      dnf:
+        name:
+          - net-tools
+          - bind-utils
+          - telnet
+          - nmap
+          - vim-enhanced
+          - sysstat
+          - tuned
+          - numactl
+    - name: Task 3
+      dnf: name=http://example.com/some_package.rpm
+    - name: Task 4
+      apt_repository:
+        repo: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
+        state: present
+    - name: Task 5
+      apt:
+        name: foo
+        update_cache: yes
+        state: present
+    - name: Task 6
+      apt:
+        deb: https://example.com/some_package.deb
+    - name: Task 7
+      copy:
+        src: file1
+        dest: /tmp/file1
+        remote_src: true
+    - name: Task 8
+      template:
+        src: file1.j2
+        dest: /tmp/file1
+      vars:
+        var1: 1
+    - name: Task 8
+      shell: |
+        command1
+        command2
+    - name: Task 7
+      file:
+        path: /tmp/dir1
+        state: directory
+        owner: root
+        group: root
+        mode: "0777"
+    - name: Task 8
+      sysctl:
+        name: net.ipv4.ip_forward
+        value: '1'
+        sysctl_set: true
+        state: present
+        reload: true
+    - name: Task 8
+      selinux:
+        policy: targeted
+        state: permissive
+    - name: Task 8
+      service:
+        name: firewalld
+        state: stopped  # started|stopped|reloaded|restarted
+        enabled: no
+    - name: Task 8
+      get_url:
+        url: http://example.com
+        dest: /tmp/file1
+      environment:
+        http_proxy: https://example.com:8080
+        https_proxy: https://example.com:8080
+    - name: Task 6
+      local_action: echo "Hello"
+    - name: Task 6
+      script: /tmp/script1
+    - name: Task 6
+      lineinfile:
+        path: /tmp/file1
+        regexp: '^db=$'
+        line: db=localhost
+</code>
+<code>
+# Tasks to get the output from one command and use as conditional for another command
+- name: Check ping
+  delegate_to: srv1
+  shell: ping -c 1 somehost
+  register: reachableping
+  ignore_errors: true
+- name: Do something
+  delegate_to: srv1
+  shell: ./run_cmd_1
+  ignore_errors: true
+  when: "'100.0% packet loss' in reachableping.stdout"
+</code>
+<code>
+# Variables can be used for an entire block
+- name: Demonstrate environment variable in block
+  hosts: localhost
+  connection: local
+  gather_facts: false
+  vars:
+    motd: Hello World
+  tasks:
+  - block:
+    - name: Print variable
+      shell: "echo $motd"
+      register: theoutput
+    - debug: var=theoutput.stdout
+      environment:
+        motd: "{{ motd }}"
+</code>
+===== Ansible Navigator =====
+Ansible Navigator uses podman to create an EE environment to run the Ansible playbooks and provides a text user interface to navigate through the documentation, inventory, and execution results.
+Install Ansible Navigator with:
+<code>
+pip3 install ansible-dev-tools ansible-navigator --user
+# or
+dnf install \
+  --enablerepo=ansible-automation-platform-2.2-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms \
+  ansible-navigator
+</code>
+Use it with:
+<code>
+ansible-navigator run playbook1.yaml
+ansible-navigator doc service  # Type ":{{ examples }}" to scroll to the example section of the doc
+ansible-navigator doc service -m stdout  # Getting output to stdout lets you use standard tools to search
+</code>
+===== Common Ansible Problems =====
+<code>
+ERROR: Ansible requires the locale encoding to be UTF-8; Detected ISO8859-1.
+Set the following environment variables within the shell before running ansible / ansible-playbook
+LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
+LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
+</code>
+===== Also See =====
+  * [[http://miro.borodziuk.eu/index.php/2020/03/09/ansible-delegation/|Ansible Delegation]]
+  * [[http://miro.borodziuk.eu/index.php/2020/02/13/ansible-vault/|Ansible Vault]]
+  * [[http://miro.borodziuk.eu/index.php/2020/02/12/ansible-galaxy/|Ansible Galaxy]]
+  * [[http://miro.borodziuk.eu/index.php/2020/03/22/ansible-paralellism/|Ansible Parallelism]]
+  * [[https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/faster-ansible-playbook-execution|8 Ways to Speed Up Your Ansible Playbooks]]
+  * [[https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/faster-ansible-modules|5 Ways to Make Your Ansible Modules Work Faster]]