Questions tagged [yaml]
YaML is a human-readable data serialisation format.
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quoting colon in ansible
I am trying to use ansible to check that the output of a particular program is set to a certain value. That value includes a colon followed by a space, and this seems to register as a syntax error no ...
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Get current hostname and push it into conf file with ansible
I'm working into an ansible playbook to get the current hostname of a server and then set it into a configuration file. I cannot figure it out how can I push the shell output using the lineinfile ...
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How to merge variables of type hash across different variable files in ansible?
I have two YAML variable files which are reused for many playbooks:
# playbook/group_vars/all
settings:
a: 1
b: 2
# inventory/group_vars/main.yml
settings:
c: 3
I want settings to be equal {...
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answer
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Adding an existing security group CloudFormation EC2 template
Instead of having to set ingress and egress rules, how do I reference existing EC2 security groups in a CloudFormation Template?
Resources:
EC2Instance:
Type: AWS::EC2::Instance
...
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Is it possible to change the current user's password in-band with ansible?
I have a Linux distribution that is freshly installed. It has a regular user with a default password, and a locked down root account (no password on root - can't be SSHed as directly). I want to be ...
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Why do some r10k configuration files start their YAML lines with :?
I'm looking at setting up r10k for Puppet deployment, and I have various example r10k.yaml configuration files, but some seem to use an extra : at the start of many lines, for instance, at http://www....
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Ansible check if variable exists in attribute list
I have a variable containing details of host machines on my network (called 'hostlist' - I believe you call this a dictionary, but I'm not sure of the terminology. The variable is defined in a file in ...
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Verifying Salt states before committing
I'm storing my salt sls files in a git repository, but I have the perennial problem that I can't verify my YAML represents a valid set of states that could be applied (I've also had difficulty ...
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How does the formatting policy look like since Ansible 2.0?
I have seen multiple Ansible examples on github and in the ansible docs, e.g.:
---
# this might be in a file like handlers/handlers.yml
- name: restart apache
service: name=apache state=restarted
...
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How to define multiple /etc/hosts entries with Puppet ENC?
I'm writing an External Node Classifier for my Puppet infrastructure, and I have the need to manipulate the /etc/hosts file on each node. The following (due to the duplicate key) is invalid YAML:
---
...
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Contents in Kubernetes pod gets empty when persistent volume is mounted
persistent volume claim and persistent volume yaml file
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: my-volume
labels:
type: local
spec:
storageClassName: manual
capacity:
...
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answer
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dict as value for YAML key in an Ansible task
I am unable to figure out how to pass a dictionary/hash-map of key-value pairs as the value for an option in an ansible tasks.
Default Options:
# roles/ec2/defaults/main.yml
ec2:
key_name: "{{ ...
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How to pass a group value in inventory file to jinja2 template file in ansible
I have an inventory file named hospital.inventory and it contains following group with a single value.
[dockerSwarmManager]
hp2-3.mydomain.com
Then I have a file name security.json.j2 inside the ...
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Cross-reference Ansible variables within the same mapping
How can I define an Ansible variable whose value is another variable in the same mapping structure?
To allow sensible namespacing of variables, I am defining mapping structures like this, where some ...
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Configure AWS CloudFront to send custom query params to origin
Is it possible to configure my AWS CloudFront distribution to append to the request a custom query param (e.g a private key) before sending it to the origin?
For example, the front end is calling *....
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Problems with setting up bonding on Netplan (Ubuntu server 18.04)
I have a dual port network card that I want to bond both ports and balance the traffic between ports. I want 1 static IP address. I used to ubuntu 16.04 and this worked fine. Im now trying to set ...
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SaltStack: found conflicting ID
My sls file:
/etc/sudoers.d/foo:
file.managed:
- contents: |
foo ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl restart minio_storage-foo.service
foo ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/systemctl restart ...
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How to validate variables contents in Ansible?
ansible-lint only checks the tasks/handlers and doesn't iterate over the variables (e.g. if you're using with_items, it won't iterate over all the items) and yamllint only checks cosmetic issues and ...
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How to use Ansible modules replace or inline instead shell command with SED
i have file with string:
MYAPP.db.username.DEV=MYUSERNAME
Where:
MYAPP mean name of applications
DEV means environment
MYUSERNAME means name of user for connection to db
I need to replace these ...
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Create JSON Patch 6902 from two yaml/json files
Imagine I have a file foo.yaml and a modified version of this file called foo2.yaml.
Is there a way to create a correspondig json patch 6902?
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Use lookup/dynamic variable names in Ansible jinja2 template
The playbook below should generate a file with the content:
a,b
ssh_host_key
ssh_rsa_host_key
However, the way I construct the variable names results in either syntax/templating errors or 'variable ...
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How can I enable epel-release before installing packages with cloud-init?
I'm trying to install a few packages on CentOS 8 via cloud-init, like this:
package_upgrade: true
packages:
- firewalld
- htop
One of them one of them requires epel-release repo to be installed ...
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Ansible error: The tasks/main.yml file for role 'common' must contain a list of tasks
I inherited this ansible git from my predecessor. I can't get it to work though and I guess it's something basic that I'm missing. It keeps giving me this lovely error: ERROR! The tasks/main.yml file ...
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Unable to delete daemonSet in k8s
I've created a daemonSet in k8s under the namespace kube-system.
While trying to delete the deamonSet it got stuck (also when I force it)
I've already tried to set a updateStrategy: RollingUpdate To ...
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answer
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patroni.exceptions.PatroniFatalException: 'Failed to bootstrap cluster'
I have a problem with patroni right here
[postgres@localhost ~]$ patroni /etc/patroni.yml
2021-05-25 11:39:56,767 INFO: Selected new etcd server http://10.102.196.138:2379
2021-05-25 11:39:56,772 INFO:...
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AWS CloudFormation - Creating Layer Version and Function that uses layer
I have a Cloudformation template that currently looks roughly like the following.
Resources:
MyLayer:
Type: AWS::Lambda::LayerVersion
Properties:
CompatibleRuntimes:
- nodejs12....
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Puppet - Get interface name from netplan yaml config
How to get interface name which has nameservers defined?
I want to get the interface name so I can pass it to another netplan puppet module so the nameservers can be replaced. But I only want to get ...
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CloudFormation template: how to use Sub and GetAtt at the same time in short form?
I'm using yaml. So, we can use either:
!GetAtt [ WebServer, AvailabilityZone ]
!GetAtt WebServer.AvailabilityZone
Also, we can use:
!Sub 'sometext-${AWS::StackName}'
how can I use GetAtt output ...
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How to use vars in ansible roles
I want to create a ansible role to add user with ssh_keys
├── ansible.cfg
├── hosts
├── playbooks
│ └── add_user.yml
└── roles
└── add-user
├── files
│ ├── ansible.pub
...
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CloudFormation stack yaml syntax?
I'm trying to create a SecurityGroup which has a tag like Name: SG-StackName. This code works perfect in json:
"Resources": {
"SecurityGroup": {
"Type": "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup",
...
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How do I loop over items 1 by 1 in Ansible config (YAML/Jinja2)?
I am trying to loop over my hosts from my inventory in Ansible, and use the name of the host of that iteration in a command. In particular, I am trying to set the hostname of each of my hosts to ...
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Commands not working “with_item” in ansible playbook
I am new to ansible and trying to write a basic playbook for mongodb backup with simplest method. here is what i am trying to do:
---
- hosts: mongo
tasks:
- name: Mongo Dump
command: ...
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Can you set the number of rounds that ansible's password_hash jinja2 filter uses?
In ansible, it's pretty convenient to use something like this:
- name: Make sure user password is set
user:
name: my_user
password: "{{ user_password|password_hash('sha512', 'SomeSalt') }}"...
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Alertmanager telegram config chat_id and cannot unmarshal errror
I am trying to configure alertmanager to send alerts to my telegram group. Following the configuration I have:
global:
resolve_timeout: 5m
route:
group_by:
- job
group_interval: 5m
...
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vote
1
answer
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Templated dict keys in ansible YAML
I am trying to use a dict in an Ansible task, which is defined like this:
in vars/main.yml file:
username: user1
userpass: pass1
users:
"{{ username }}":
pass: "{{ userpass }}"
This doesn't ...
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1
answer
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Ansible expect is not sending response
I'm new to ansible and trying it by writing an ansible playbook for installing graphite, as a part of it I have the graphite-manage syncdb command which I would like to automate.
I wrote this task to ...
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saltstack configuration "No Top file or external nodes data matches found"
A very similar version of this question is asked here , but it's completely different since the person had their top file in the wrong directory.
I have 3 projects, that I'll call project1, ...
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replace with regular expression in azure devops
I want to take this buildVariable
Build.SourceVersion
which will equal for example:
0gc58d92d905d62415b8866g3f48f17416da426s
And replace from digit [7] till line end with empty string
0gc58d92
I ...
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Password of new user with LXD and Cloud-init
I'm trying to create a profile to automate the creation of a container, but I'm having trouble with cloud-init. For some reason the password is not being set for the user and is also not being added ...
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How to convert and save raw data to PDF format using ansible
I will be getting some raw data directly from an API. I want to format this and convert into PDF file and save it. I gone through ansible modules. I am not getting any idea in this. Can someone ...
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Create a tree-like structure with ansible
I have to create an LDAP structure with users and groups.
The groups are a bit complex with a lot of nested groups etc. I need to create a tree like structure in my inventory, like the following:
---...
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pod's name from an environment variables defined in yaml
how can I create a yaml file for pod that get its name from a environment variables defined in yaml file.
I have tried this but it is not allowed.
metadata:
generateName: $(HOSTNAME)
.
.
.
env:
...
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Puppet parse hiera in inline_template
I have got some .yaml hiera file with:
iptables::test:
ip:
1.1.1.1 : 'adm-1'
2.2.2.2 : 'adm-2'
3.3.3.3 : 'adm-3'
And i want to parse this file in inline_template. I write:
$...
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Gitlab CI/CD with conditional scripts
Here is what I wish to do in GitLab CI/CD:
Whenever something is pushed into a specific branch I wish to have multiple scrips and CI/CD should decide which script should be run based on the pushed ...
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"Report-To" HTTP header implementation for GAE Standard
I'm attempting to add a "Report-To:" HTTP header to our App Engine's app.yaml configuration file for integration with https://report-uri.com (based on the Reporting API here, here, and here) but when ...
google-cloud-platform
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app.yaml isn't updated when I deploy (Google App engine/Google Cloud Platform)
This is my default app.yaml file:
runtime: custom
env: flex
service: api
runtime_config:
jdk: openjdk8
handlers:
- url: /.*
script: this field is required, but ignored
automatic_scaling:
...
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1
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Saltstack for firewalld
I am trying to get a state set up so that I can add the associated ports open in firewalld.
Tried every example I can find and all fail.
Here is my current:
firewalld:
service.running:
- ...
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How can I install Development Tools via vagrant and ansible on Centos 6.7
I get this error when running my first ansible playbook (i.e. I am not familiar with ansible yet)
TASK: [Install packages] ******************************************************
failed: [default] =&...
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Linux program used to gather installed packages, processes, listening ports, etc.?
It's hard to Google this because it seems like everyone and their kid sister has written a script to gather system stats!
I once saw a mature program written that is used to gather system stats like ...
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How should I replace this line "provisioner: k8s.io/minikube-hostpath" for a "Kind" statefulset.yaml file?
The following is a StatefulSet.yaml file for deploying Cassandra database on a minikube cluster. I am not sure what lines should be replaced if I want to use a Kind cluster instead of a minikube one, ...
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