Fabian Lee : Software Engineer

Ansible: find module to create glob of remote files

July 27, 2021
Categories: Automation

Unfortunately, with_fileglob only works on files local to the Ansible orchestrator host. It will not build a list of files from the remote directory, even if you use something like the copy module that has ‘remote_source: true’. In these situation, you can use the find module to generate a list of files on the remote … Ansible: find module to create glob of remote files

Ansible: implementing a looping block using include_tasks

June 18, 2021
Categories: Automation

Ansible blocks provide a convenient way to logically group tasks. So it is unfortunate that native Ansible syntax does not allow looping to be combined with a block. Consider the simple conditional block below controlled by a variable ‘do_block_logic’: – name: simple block with conditional block: – name: simple block task1 debug: msg=”hello” – name: … Ansible: implementing a looping block using include_tasks