Ansible
DevOps automation framework.
- What makes Ansible unique is not host agent, all done through ssh.
Links / Playbooks
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
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.