Questions tagged [ansible]

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ansible: How to avoid warnings

I am using ansible for monitoring my home computing net, which consists several Linux machines (x64 and Raspberries). How can I avoid warnings from every Raspberry client? [WARNING]: Platform linux on host raspi6.local is using the discovered Python…
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Ansible: dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades stopped while running

Here we are trying to start auto updating packages in Ubuntu through Ansible playbook. dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades When we run this command manually, it shows the following prompt, and it starts updating packages :- Configuring…
karan
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git@git:~$ ansible --version ERROR: Ansible requires the locale encoding to be UTF-8; Detected ISO8859-1

Installing Ansible on Ubuntu Ubuntu builds are available in a PPA here. To configure the PPA on your system and install Ansible run these commands: $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install software-properties-common $ sudo add-apt-repository --yes…
anjireddy
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"[Errno 2]. No such file or directory: b'apt-get'", "rc": 2

I don't know why when I run my ansible-playbook to install packages on ec2-instances using apt-get this appears. [WARNING]: Updating cache and auto-installing missing dependency: python3-apt fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd":…
demetri
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Permission denied (publickey). while using SCP command

I have tried to copy some file in tomcat using SCP command scp ubuntu@xxxxxxx:/opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.48/conf/server.xml . ubuntu@xxxxxxx: Permission denied (publickey). help me to get out this Thank in advance :)
AKASH-29
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Reinstall GRUB on second disk's EFI partition from running system

I am trying to do something like this: How can I reinstall GRUB to the EFI partition? However, I don't see how I can run chroot because it's an automated process (with Ansible, but that shouldn't matter; if this can be scripted in Bash, that'd work…
godfool
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How to redirect output to a text file in bash and have it show in the terminal at the same time?

If I use the text re-directors > and >> they output to a text file which is fine for long term logging but, I also need them to be present on screen in the traditional Standard Input, Standard Output format as I'm running code through the shell…
Michael
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What's the difference between dist-upgrade and upgrading /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check --package-names?

What is the difference between upgrading packages using the dist-upgrade and upgrading the packages from /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check --package-names ? The reason I'm asking is, the machine I'm upgrading is running the service…
N. J
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Nested Command in sed substitution

I'm trying to used sed to find and encrypt ansible_password field in an inventory file and encrypt it with ansible-vault command. But ansible-command is failing throwing an sed error, where as a simple echo is working fine. sed -n "s/\(…
Munavir Chavody
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Ansible to reconnect after reboot

I have a task that needs to run after a reboot. I know that checking connection can be done with wait_for_connection . I have the following draft: - name: Reboot host reboot: - name: Wait 300 seconds, but only start checking after 60 seconds…
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How to noninteractively add Certificate Authority (CA) ssl certificates from script

I have an ansible play that calls a script. The script copies .crt files for my private key infrastructure in to /usr/share/ca-certificates/my.domain.tld Then the script calls: sudo update-ca-certificates sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates The…
James T Snell
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How can I use Ansible to claim that I accept the Microsoft EULA agreement for ttf-mscorefonts-installer?

How can I accept the Microsoft EULA agreement for ttf-mscorefonts-installer? lists some ways to achieve this (GUI, script, puppet config). But I am at loss how to handle echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula select…
reducing activity
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Dependencies problem when installing ansible in ubuntu 18.04

I try to reinstall ansible in my ubuntu18.04 laptop. I've got this dependencies problem : $ LANG=C sudo apt-get install ansible Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be…
Cedricici
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How to connect Ansible to AWS-EC2 via ssh

I want to connect ansible to EC2 via ssh. I created a key pair on my local machine(ubuntu) and copied it to my EC2 instances using ssh-copy-id. The copy was successful, but I get the error below when I want to connect to my instance: Failed to…
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Cannot use any Ansible playbook anymore. Error about "Data could not be sent to remote host"

When I try to execute any Ansible playbook, the following error message appears: fatal: [pxenode2]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Data could not be sent to remote host \"10.0.2.102\". Make sure this host can be reached over ssh:…
Søren Sjøstrøm
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