Ansible find module functions as same as the Linux Find command and helps to find files and directories based on various search criteria such as age of the file, accessed date, modified date, regex search pattern etcetera. As said earlier, this is more of an ansible way to execute the Lin...
Use variables in Ansible when statement You can use variables in the “when” statement to define conditional expressions that depend on the values of variables. - debug: msg: the foo variable does not equal the bar string when: foo != 'bar' ...
Ansible has a healthy contributor of contributors, and is a free and open source product released under the Apache 2.0 license, the same license that powers the Apache webserver in the LAMP stack. The thousands of collections of in Ansible Galaxy present a ready to use solution for configuring...
This parameter is to pass the series of strings or arguments to the input expected by the command parameter. You can pass the responses in the form of the string or the regex (Regular expression). If the response is a list, successive matches returns the successive responses. timeout: Value...
You’re using thelineinfileAnsible module to target and replace a specific line in a file. In this case, you’re using regex to target a specific line in thesudoersfile then modifying it to allow passwordless use ofsudo. You also usevisudoto validate your changes to prevent ...
To copy files from a remote source to a remote destination (remote_src) To copy files from a local source to a remote destination You can use thefetchmodule to copy files from the remote source to local on the other hand. We will be seeing various examples of Ansible copy in this artic...
For this tutorial, we will install Ansible on a new Ubuntu 14.04 master Droplet and use it to configure Apache on a second Droplet. That said, keep in mind that one of the benefits of Ansible is that you can have it installed on your local machine and manage other hosts without needing...
To use one to true, another to false and third to null {{ enabled | ternary('on’, ‘off', omit) }} To get the last name of a file path like ‘test.ini’ from ‘/etc/test.ini’ {{ path | basename }} There are some very useful filters like regex_search and regex_replace fo...
You can use the -p option to see sheets only on a given path: cheat -l -p community Using the -s option, you can bring up all cheat sheets matching a given search phrase: cheat -s '.gz' The search option supports regular expression (regex) searches if you add the -r option....
Note that if you don’t bind (or attach a variable name) to the setTImeout, you can’t make use of the clearTimeout. In addition, if you pass the wrong identifier, you will not get an error, and the timeout will still exist....