Ansible

• DevOps automation framework.

• What makes Ansible unique is not host agent, all done through ssh.

Links / Playbooks

• https://crunchify.com/ansible-how-to-grep-ps-few-and-kill-process-running-on-remote-host/

Ansible module ping host

• ping/test connectivity, create inventory file, and run module ping.

  vi inventory.file
  [mygrp]
  myserver
  
  ansible mygrp -i inventory.file -m ping

• Ansible module setup return facts about a host

  ansible myserver -i inventory.file -m setup
  
  #Note: add "--tree /tmp/facts" to get facts from multiple servers in groupe, indexed by host
  cat /tmp/facts/* | jq '.ansible_facts | .ansible_fqdn + ", " + .ansible_distribution + ", python:"+.ansible_python_version +", IP:" + ( .ansible_all_ipv4_addresses   | join(",")  ) '
  
  #or
   jq 'if( .unreachable == true ) then ( input_filename +" <<Missing data" ) else ( .ansible_facts | .ansible_fqdn + ", " + .ansible_distribution + ", python:"+.ansible_python_version +", IP:" + ( .ansible_all_ipv4_addresses   | join(",")  ) ) end ' /tmp/facts/*

Encrypt/Decrypt secrets with ansible-vault before saving in git

Ansible error's

• 2020-09 [WARNING]: Unable to parse <file> as an inventory source

  • Debug with

    ansible --list-hosts all -i <file> -vvv

    • error seen "Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user"
    • Apparently ansible tries to parse inventory files with different plugins, ini, yaml, etc.