Cs: Ansible
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- An Ansible summary
Jon Warbrick, July 2014, V3.2 (for Ansible 1.7)
- Configuration file
[intro\_configuration.html](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html)
First one found from of
- Contents of `$ANSIBLE_CONFIG`
- `./ansible.cfg`
- `~/.ansible.cfg`
- `/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg`
Configuration settings can be overridden by environment variables - see constants.py in the source tree for names.
- Patterns
[intro\_patterns.html](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_patterns.html)
Used on the `ansible` command line, or in playbooks.
- `all` (or `*`)
- hostname: `foo.example.com`
- groupname: `webservers`
- or: `webservers:dbserver`
- exclude: `webserver:!phoenix`
- intersection: `webservers:&staging`
Operators can be chained: `webservers:dbservers:&staging:!phoenix`
Patterns can include variable substitutions: `Modèle:Foo`, wildcards: `*.example.com` or 192.168.1.*, and regular expressions: `~(web|db).*\.example\.com`
- Inventory files
[intro\_inventory.html](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_inventory.html), [intro\_dynamic\_inventory.html](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_dynamic_inventory.html)
'INI-file' structure, blocks define groups. Hosts allowed in more than one group. Non-standard SSH port can follow hostname separated by ':' (but see also `ansible_ssh_port` below).
Hostname ranges: `www[01:50].example.com`, `db-[a:f].example.com`
Per-host variables: `foo.example.com foo=bar baz=wibble`
- `[foo:children]`: new group `foo` containing all members if included groups
- `[foo:vars]`: variable definitions for all members of group `foo`
Inventory file defaults to `/etc/ansible/hosts`. Veritable with `-i` or in the configuration file. The 'file' can also be a dynamic inventory script. If a directory, all contained files are processed.
- Variable files:
[intro\_inventory.html](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_inventory.html)
YAML; given inventory file at `./hosts`:
- `./group_vars/foo`: variable definitions for all members of group `foo`
- `./host_vars/foo.example.com`: variable definitions for foo.example.com
`group_vars` and `host_vars` directories can also exist in the playbook directory. If both paths exist, variables in the playbook directory will be loaded second.
- Behavioral inventory parameters:
[intro\_inventory.html](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_inventory.html)
- `ansible_ssh_host`
- `ansible_ssh_port`
- `ansible_ssh_user`
- `ansible_ssh_pass`
- `ansible_sudo_pass`
- `ansible_connection`
- `ansible_ssh_private_key_file`
- `ansible_python_interpreter`
- `ansible_*_interpreter`
- Playbooks
[playbooks\_intro.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_intro.html), [playbooks\_roles.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html)
Playbooks are a YAML list of one or more plays. Most (all?) keys are optional. Lines can be broken on space with continuation lines indented.
Playbooks consist of a list of one or more 'plays' and/or inclusions:
--- - include: playbook.yml - <play> - ...
- Plays
[playbooks\_intro.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_intro.html), [playbooks\_roles.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.htm), [playbooks\_variables.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_variables.html), [playbooks\_conditionals.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_conditionals.html), [playbooks\_acceleration.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_acceleration.html), [playbooks\_delegation.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_delegation.html), [playbooks\_prompts.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_prompts.html), [playbooks\_tags.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_tags.htm) [Forum posting](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/F9mIAfo6orc) [Forum postinb](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/Ansible-project/MU_ws7zynnI)
Plays consist of play metadata and a sequence of task and handler definitions, and roles.
- hosts: webservers remote_user: root sudo: yes sudo_user: postgress su: yes su_user: exim gather_facts: no accelerate: no accelerate_port: 5099 any_errors_fatal: yes max_fail_percentage: 30 connection: local serial: 5 vars: http_port: 80 vars_files: - "vars.yml" - [ "try-first.yml", "try-second-.yml" ] vars_prompt: - name: "my_password2" prompt: "Enter password2" default: "secret" private: yes encrypt: "md5_crypt" confirm: yes salt: 1234 salt_size: 8 tags: - stuff - nonsence pre_tasks: - <task> - ... roles: - common - { role: common, port: 5000, when: "bar == 'Baz'", tags :[one, two] } - { role: common, when: month == 'Jan' } - ... tasks: - include: tasks.yaml - include: tasks.yaml foo=bar baz=wibble - include: tasks.yaml vars: foo: aaa baz: - z - y - { include: tasks.yaml, foo: zzz, baz: [a,b]} - include: tasks.yaml when: day == 'Thursday' - <task> - ... post_tasks: - <task> - ... handlers: - include: handlers.yml - <task> - ...
Using `encrypt` with `vars_prompt` requires that [Passlib](http://pythonhosted.org/passlib/) is installed.
In addition the source code implies the availability of the following which don't *seem* to be mentioned in the documentation: `name`, `user` (deprecated), `port`, `accelerate_ipv6`, `role_names`, and `vault_password`.
- Task definitions
[playbooks\_intro.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_intro.html), [playbooks\_roles.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html), [playbooks\_async.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_async.html), [playbooks\_checkmode.html](http://docs.ansible.com/[playbooks_checkmode.html), [playbooks\_delegation.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_delegation.html), [playbooks\_environment.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_environment.html), [playbooks\_error_handling.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_error_handling.html), [playbooks\_tags.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_tags.html) [ansible-1-5-released](http://www.ansible.com/blog/2014/02/28/ansible-1-5-released) [Forum posting](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/F9mIAfo6orc) [Ansible examples](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/blob/master/language_features/complex_args.yml)
Each task definition is a list of items, normally including at least a name and a module invocation:
- name: task remote_user: apache sudo: yes sudo_user: postgress sudo_pass: wibble su: yes su_user: exim ignore_errors: True delegate_to: 127.0.0.1 async: 45 poll: 5 always_run: no run_once: false meta: flush_handlers no_log: true environment: <hash> environment: var1: val1 var2: val2 tags: - stuff - nonsence <module>: src=template.j2 dest=/etc/foo.conf action: <module>, src=template.j2 dest=/etc/foo.conf action: <module> args: src=template.j2 dest=/etc/foo.conf local_action: <module> /usr/bin/take_out_of_pool Modèle:Inventory hostname when: ansible_os_family == "Debian" register: result failed_when: "'FAILED' in result.stderr" changed_when: result.rc != 2 notify: - restart apache
`delegate_to: 127.0.0.1` is implied by `local_action:`
The forms `<module>: <args>`, `action: <module> <args>`, and `local_action: <module> <args>` are mutually-exclusive.
Additional keys `when_*`, `until`, `retries` and `delay` are documented below under 'Loops'.
In addition the source code implies the availability of the following which don't *seem* to be mentioned in the documentation: `first_available_file` (deprecated), `transport`, `connection`, `any_errors_fatal`.
- Roles
[playbooks\_roles.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html)
Directory structure:
playbook.yml roles/ common/ tasks/ main.yml handlers/ main.yml vars/ main.yml meta/ main.yml defaults/ main.yml files/ templates/ library/
- Modules
[modules.htm](http://docs.ansible.com/modules.htm), [modules\_by\_category.html](http://docs.ansible.com/modules_by_category.html)
List all installed modules with
ansible-doc --list
Document a particular module with
ansible-doc <module>
Show playbook snippet for specified module
ansible-doc -i <module>
- Variables
[playbooks\_roles.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html), [playbooks\_variables.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_variables.html)
Names: letters, digits, underscores; starting with a letter.
- Substitution examples:
- `Modèle:Var`
- `{{ var["key1"]["key2"]}}`
- `Modèle:Var.key1.key2`
- `{{ list[0] }}`
YAML requires an item starting with a variable substitution to be quoted.
- Sources:
- Highest priority:
* `--extra-vars` on the command line
- General:
* `vars` component of a playbook * From files referenced by `vars_file` in a playbook * From included files (incl. roles) * Parameters passed to includes * `register:` in tasks
- Lower priority:
* Inventory (set on host or group)
- Lower priority:
* Facts (see below) * Any `/etc/ansible/facts.d/filename.fact` on managed machines (sets variables with `ansible_local.filename. prefix)
- Lowest priority
* Role defaults (from defaults/main.yml)
- Built-in:
- `hostvars` (e.g. `hostvars[other.example.com][...]`)
- `group_names` (groups containing current host)
- `groups` (all groups and hosts in the inventory)
- `inventory_hostname` (current host as in inventory)
- `inventory_hostname_short` (first component of inventory_hostname)
- `play_hosts` (hostnames in scope for current play)
- `inventory_dir` (location of the inventory)
- `inventoty_file` (name of the inventory)
- Facts:
Run `ansible hostname -m setup`, but in particular:
- `ansible_distribution`
- `ansible_distribution_release`
- `ansible_distribution_version`
- `ansible_fqdn`
- `ansible_hostname`
- `ansible_os_family`
- `ansible_pkg_mgr`
- `ansible_default_ipv4.address`
- `ansible_default_ipv6.address`
- Content of 'registered' variables:
[playbooks\_conditionals.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_conditionals.html), [playbooks\_loops.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_loops.html)
Depends on module. Typically includes:
- `.rc`
- `.stdout`
- `.stdout_lines`
- `.changed`
- `.msg` (following failure)
- `.results` (when used in a loop)
See also `failed`, `changed`, etc filters.
When used in a loop the `result` element is a list containing all responses from the module.
- Additionally available in templates:
- `ansible_managed`: string containing the information below
- `template_host`: node name of the templateâs machine
- `template_uid`: the owner
- `template_path`: absolute path of the template
- `template_fullpath`: the absolute path of the template
- `template_run_date`: the date that the template was rendered
- Filters
[playbooks\_variables.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_variables.html)
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Result`
- `Modèle:Result`
- `Modèle:Result`
- `Modèle:Result`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:List1`
- `Modèle:List1`
- `Modèle:List1`
- `Modèle:List1`
- `Modèle:List1`
- `Modèle:Ver1`
- `Modèle:List`
- `Modèle:Number`
- `Modèle:Number`
- `Modèle:List`
- `Modèle:Path`
- `Modèle:Path`
- `Modèle:Path`
- `Modèle:Path`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Filename`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
- `Modèle:Var`
See also [default jinja2 filters](http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/#builtin-filters). In YAML, values starting `{` must be quoted.
- Lookups
[playbooks\_lookups.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_lookups.html)
Lookups are evaluated on the control machine.
- `Modèle:Lookup('file', '/etc/foo.txt')`
- `Modèle:Lookup('password', '/tmp/passwordfile length=20 chars=ascii letters,digits')`
- `Modèle:Lookup('env','HOME')`
- `Modèle:Lookup('pipe','date')`
- `Modèle:Lookup('redis kv', 'redis://localhost:6379,somekey')`
- `Modèle:Lookup('dnstxt', 'example.com')`
- `Modèle:Lookup('template', './some template.j2')`
Lookups can be assigned to variables and will be evaluated each time the variable is used.
Lookup plugins also support loop iteration (see below).
- Conditions
[playbooks\_conditionals.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_conditionals.html)
`when: <condition>`, where condition is:
- `var == "Vaue"`, `var >= 5`, etc.
- `var`, where `var` coreces to boolean (yes, true, True, TRUE)
- `var is defined`, `var is not defined`
- `<condition1> and <condition2>` (also `or`?)
Combined with `with_items`, the when statement is processed for each item.
`when` can also be applied to includes and roles. Conditional Imports and variable substitution in file and template names can avoid the need for explicit conditionals.
- Loops
[playbooks\_loops.html](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_loops.html)
In addition the source code implies the availability of the following which don't *seem* to be mentioned in the documentation: `csvfile`, `etcd`, `inventory_hostname`.
- Standard:
- user: name=Modèle:Item state=present groups=wheel with_items: - testuser1 - testuser2 - name: add several users user: name=Modèle:Item.name state=present groups=Modèle:Item.groups with_items: - { name: 'testuser1', groups: 'wheel' } - { name: 'testuser2', groups: 'root' }
with_items: somelist
- Nested:
- mysql_user: name={{ item[0] }} priv={{ item[1] }}.*:ALL append_privs=yes password=foo with_nested: - [ 'alice', 'bob', 'eve' ] - [ 'clientdb', 'employeedb', 'providerdb' ]
- Over hashes:
Given
--- users: alice: name: Alice Appleworth telephone: 123-456-7890 bob: name: Bob Bananarama telephone: 987-654-3210 tasks: - name: Print phone records debug: msg="User Modèle:Item.key is Modèle:Item.value.name (Modèle:Item.value.telephone)" with_dict: users
- Fileglob:
- copy: src=Modèle:Item dest=/etc/fooapp/ owner=root mode=600 with_fileglob: - /playbooks/files/fooapp/*
In a role, relative paths resolve relative to the `roles/<rolename>/files` directory.
- With content of file:
(see example for `authorized_key` module)
- authorized_key: user=deploy key="Modèle:Item" with_file: - public_keys/doe-jane - public_keys/doe-john
See also the `file` lookup when the content of a file is needed.
- Parallel sets of data:
Given
--- alpha: [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' ] numbers: [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ] - debug: msg="Modèle:Item.0 and Modèle:Item.1" with_together: - alpha - numbers
- Subelements:
Given
--- users: - name: alice authorized: - /tmp/alice/onekey.pub - /tmp/alice/twokey.pub - name: bob authorized: - /tmp/bob/id_rsa.pub - authorized_key: "user=Modèle:Item.0.name key='Modèle:Lookup('file', item.1)'" with_subelements: - users - authorized
- Integer sequence:
Decimal, hexadecimal (0x3f8) or octal (0600)
- user: name=Modèle:Item state=present groups=evens with_sequence: start=0 end=32 format=testuser%02x with_sequence: start=4 end=16 stride=2 with_sequence: count=4
- Random choice:
- debug: msg=Modèle:Item with_random_choice: - "go through the door" - "drink from the goblet" - "press the red button" - "do nothing"
- Do-Until:
- action: shell /usr/bin/foo register: result until: result.stdout.find("all systems go") != -1 retries: 5 delay: 10
- Results of a local program:
- name: Example of looping over a command result shell: /usr/bin/frobnicate Modèle:Item with_lines: /usr/bin/frobnications_per_host --param Modèle:Inventory hostname
To loop over the results of a remote program, use `register: result` and then `with_items: result.stdout_lines` in a subsequent task.
- Indexed list:
- name: indexed loop demo debug: msg="at array position Modèle:Item.0 there is a value Modèle:Item.1" with_indexed_items: some_list
- Flattened list:
--- # file: roles/foo/vars/main.yml packages_base: - [ 'foo-package', 'bar-package' ] packages_apps: - [ ['one-package', 'two-package' ]] - [ ['red-package'], ['blue-package']] - name: flattened loop demo yum: name=Modèle:Item state=installed with_flattened: - packages_base - packages_apps
- First found:
- name: template a file template: src=Modèle:Item dest=/etc/myapp/foo.conf with_first_found: - files: - Modèle:Ansible distribution.conf - default.conf paths: - search_location_one/somedir/ - /opt/other_location/somedir/
- Tags
Both plays and tasks support a `tags:` attribute.
- template: src=templates/src.j2 dest=/etc/foo.conf tags: - configuration
Tags can be applied to roles and includes (effectively tagging all included tasks)
roles: - { role: webserver, port: 5000, tags: [ 'web', 'foo' ] }
- include: foo.yml tags=web,foo
To select by tag:
ansible-playbook example.yml --tags "configuration,packages" ansible-playbook example.yml --skip-tags "notification"
- Command lines
- ansible
Usage: ansible <host-pattern> [options]
Options: -a MODULE_ARGS, --args=MODULE_ARGS module arguments -k, --ask-pass ask for SSH password --ask-su-pass ask for su password -K, --ask-sudo-pass ask for sudo password --ask-vault-pass ask for vault password -B SECONDS, --background=SECONDS run asynchronously, failing after X seconds (default=N/A) -C, --check don't make any changes; instead, try to predict some of the changes that may occur -c CONNECTION, --connection=CONNECTION connection type to use (default=smart) -f FORKS, --forks=FORKS specify number of parallel processes to use (default=5) -h, --help show this help message and exit -i INVENTORY, --inventory-file=INVENTORY specify inventory host file (default=/etc/ansible/hosts) -l SUBSET, --limit=SUBSET further limit selected hosts to an additional pattern --list-hosts outputs a list of matching hosts; does not execute anything else -m MODULE_NAME, --module-name=MODULE_NAME module name to execute (default=command) -M MODULE_PATH, --module-path=MODULE_PATH specify path(s) to module library (default=/usr/share/ansible) -o, --one-line condense output -P POLL_INTERVAL, --poll=POLL_INTERVAL set the poll interval if using -B (default=15) --private-key=PRIVATE_KEY_FILE use this file to authenticate the connection -S, --su run operations with su -R SU_USER, --su-user=SU_USER run operations with su as this user (default=root) -s, --sudo run operations with sudo (nopasswd) -U SUDO_USER, --sudo-user=SUDO_USER desired sudo user (default=root) -T TIMEOUT, --timeout=TIMEOUT override the SSH timeout in seconds (default=10) -t TREE, --tree=TREE log output to this directory -u REMOTE_USER, --user=REMOTE_USER connect as this user (default=jw35) --vault-password-file=VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE vault password file -v, --verbose verbose mode (-vvv for more, -vvvv to enable connection debugging) --version show program's version number and exit
- ansible-playbook
Usage: ansible-playbook playbook.yml
Options: -k, --ask-pass ask for SSH password --ask-su-pass ask for su password -K, --ask-sudo-pass ask for sudo password --ask-vault-pass ask for vault password -C, --check don't make any changes; instead, try to predict some of the changes that may occur -c CONNECTION, --connection=CONNECTION connection type to use (default=smart) -D, --diff when changing (small) files and templates, show the differences in those files; works great with --check -e EXTRA_VARS, --extra-vars=EXTRA_VARS set additional variables as key=value or YAML/JSON -f FORKS, --forks=FORKS specify number of parallel processes to use (default=5) -h, --help show this help message and exit -i INVENTORY, --inventory-file=INVENTORY specify inventory host file (default=/etc/ansible/hosts) -l SUBSET, --limit=SUBSET further limit selected hosts to an additional pattern --list-hosts outputs a list of matching hosts; does not execute anything else --list-tasks list all tasks that would be executed -M MODULE_PATH, --module-path=MODULE_PATH specify path(s) to module library (default=/usr/share/ansible) --private-key=PRIVATE_KEY_FILE use this file to authenticate the connection --skip-tags=SKIP_TAGS only run plays and tasks whose tags do not match these values --start-at-task=START_AT start the playbook at the task matching this name --step one-step-at-a-time: confirm each task before running -S, --su run operations with su -R SU_USER, --su-user=SU_USER run operations with su as this user (default=root) -s, --sudo run operations with sudo (nopasswd) -U SUDO_USER, --sudo-user=SUDO_USER desired sudo user (default=root) --syntax-check perform a syntax check on the playbook, but do not execute it -t TAGS, --tags=TAGS only run plays and tasks tagged with these values -T TIMEOUT, --timeout=TIMEOUT override the SSH timeout in seconds (default=10) -u REMOTE_USER, --user=REMOTE_USER connect as this user (default=jw35) --vault-password-file=VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE vault password file -v, --verbose verbose mode (-vvv for more, -vvvv to enable connection debugging) --version show program's version number and exit
- ansible-vault
playbooks_vault.html
Usage: ansible-vault [create|decrypt|edit|encrypt|rekey] [--help] [options] file_name
Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit
See 'ansible-vault <command> --help' for more information on a specific command.
- ansible-doc
Usage: ansible-doc [options] [module...]
Show Ansible module documentation
Options: --version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit -M MODULE_PATH, --module-path=MODULE_PATH Ansible modules/ directory -l, --list List available modules -s, --snippet Show playbook snippet for specified module(s) -v Show version number and exit
- ansible-galaxy
Usage: ansible-galaxy [init|info|install|list|remove] [--help] [options] ...
Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit
See 'ansible-galaxy <command> --help' for more information on a specific command
- ansible-pull
Usage: ansible-pull [options] [playbook.yml]
ansible-pull: error: URL for repository not specified, use -h for help
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