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## [managing software via ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/managing-software-via-ansible/35622)

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**Author:** [@Sakshi\_Jain](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sakshi_Jain)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 14, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/managing-software-via-ansible/35622 "2021-08-14T19:36:43Z")

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## [add repository to https://github.com/ansible-collections](https://forum.ansible.com/t/add-repository-to-https-github-com-ansible-collections/35621)

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**Author:** [@Krzysztof\_Lewandowsk](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Krzysztof_Lewandowsk)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 14, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/add-repository-to-https-github-com-ansible-collections/35621 "2021-08-14T17:27:57Z")

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Hi, I’ve developed two Ansible collections I’d like to share with the community. The first one contains a bunch of modules for Terraform Enterprise, the second one modules for Bitbucket. Would it be possible to create…

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## [Unified job vs job](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unified-job-vs-job/35620)

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**Author:** [@Erik\_Mackey](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Erik_Mackey)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 13, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unified-job-vs-job/35620 "2021-08-13T17:59:47Z")

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What is the distinction between a job and a Unified Job? In the documentation there is a section on Unified Job Templates but it doesn’t seem to define what a Unified job is: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/2.3.0/…

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## [Job Vs Unified Job](https://forum.ansible.com/t/job-vs-unified-job/35616)

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**Author:** [@Erik\_Mackey](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Erik_Mackey)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 13, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/job-vs-unified-job/35616 "2021-08-13T17:56:19Z")

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What is the distinction between a job and a Unified Job? In the documentation there is a section on Unified Job Templates but it doesn’t seem to define what a Unified job is: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/2.3.0/…

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## [AWX 18 Docker-Installation](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-18-docker-installation/35619)

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**Author:** [@pavan\_kumar1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/pavan_kumar1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 13, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-18-docker-installation/35619 "2021-08-13T16:42:45Z")

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AWX 18 docker-Installation successfully deployed, but not able to access UI, Getting below error: GET /api/ 504 Error occured while trying to proxy: localhost:3001/api/ Please help on this

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## [Issue with jinja2 template](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-with-jinja2-template/35615)

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**Author:** [@harry\_devine](https://forum.ansible.com/u/harry_devine)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-with-jinja2-template/35615 "2021-08-12T15:47:30Z")

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I’m trying to create a report when we do our updates via yum (rhel 7) and dnf (rhel 8). I register the output in variables called yum\_rhel7 and yum \_rhel8. Here’s my j2 file: Yum/DNF Update Report {{ now(false, ‘%m/%d/…

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## [Running a playbook against group of hosts in AWX](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-a-playbook-against-group-of-hosts-in-awx/35610)

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**Author:** [@GXW\_Online](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GXW_Online)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-a-playbook-against-group-of-hosts-in-awx/35610 "2021-08-12T10:33:36Z")

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Hi, I’ve been using ansible for quite a while and have lots of playbooks that I run from the command line. I have an inventory with several groups in it. When I run a playbook I can tell it to run against a single host,…

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## [How to connect to azure key vault using service principal and .pem file](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-connect-to-azure-key-vault-using-service-principal-and-pem-file/35612)

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**Author:** [@Teja](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Teja)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-connect-to-azure-key-vault-using-service-principal-and-pem-file/35612 "2021-08-11T16:49:41Z")

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Hi All, I was trying to use ansible to get/set secrets in azure key vault. in azure\_rm\_keyvaultsecret module we have only secret argument to provide credentials for the service principal. but our requirement is to use .…

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## [ansible template vars for command line invocation](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-template-vars-for-command-line-invocation/35611)

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**Author:** [@Ed\_Greenberg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ed_Greenberg)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-template-vars-for-command-line-invocation/35611 "2021-08-11T14:14:06Z")

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Hi, I have a bash command of: ansible beta -m template -a 'src=…/templates/www.conf.j2 dest=/root/www.conf ’ I need to specify a variable on the command line. I tried specifying it in the -a string, but got an error t…

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## [Why am I getting this ODBC Connectors Error on this Playbook?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-am-i-getting-this-odbc-connectors-error-on-this-playbook/35609)

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**Author:** [@Prabhakaran\_Karuppai](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Prabhakaran_Karuppai)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-am-i-getting-this-odbc-connectors-error-on-this-playbook/35609 "2021-08-11T13:02:36Z")

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Hi Members, Please find attached herewith the Ansible Playbook along with an error screenshot attached. Please consider and Kindly do the needful at the earliest. With Hope, Thanks and Regards, Prabhakaran (attach…

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## [Issue with Storing passwords in third-party tools with vault password client scripts](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-with-storing-passwords-in-third-party-tools-with-vault-password-client-scripts/35608)

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**Author:** [@satya\_Addala](https://forum.ansible.com/u/satya_Addala)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-with-storing-passwords-in-third-party-tools-with-vault-password-client-scripts/35608 "2021-08-11T08:40:42Z")

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Hii All, I am not able to find the token handler for storedsafe which used client script to encrypt vault password file,Could you please help me with this issue. The actual url link is : Protecting sensitive data with …

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## [Vmware Site Recovery Manager](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-site-recovery-manager/35607)

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**Author:** [@senguler](https://forum.ansible.com/u/senguler)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-site-recovery-manager/35607 "2021-08-11T06:51:12Z")

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Hi all, I have a case to manage Vmware SRM with ansible but I could not find any documents for ansible. SRM has a SDK for c# ,java and any web services. I need your advice, can i do it with ansible or not? Thanks for a…

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## [Ansible managed Windows Hosts and GCP Buckets](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-managed-windows-hosts-and-gcp-buckets/35606)

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**Author:** [@Craig\_Franz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Craig_Franz)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-managed-windows-hosts-and-gcp-buckets/35606 "2021-08-11T05:39:39Z")

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Hi All, I have need to pull source files down from a non public GCP Cloud Buckets and I was wondering if there is any Ansible Modules for windows that support this I was looking into gsutil cmd that can be run from goog…

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## [Ansible-4.4.0 released](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-4-4-0-released/35605)

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**Author:** [@tkuratom](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tkuratom)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-4-4-0-released/35605 "2021-08-10T20:59:48Z")

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Hi all, We're happy to announce that the ansible-4.4.0 package has been released! The update contains bugfixes and new, backwards compatible features in the contained collections. How to get it

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## [jinja2 warning](https://forum.ansible.com/t/jinja2-warning/35603)

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**Author:** [@Mahesh\_Nalavade](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mahesh_Nalavade)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2021, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/jinja2-warning/35603 "2021-08-10T08:47:08Z")

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Hi , While running the ansible task in azure pipeline we are getting the below warning message. Please let us know if we can ignore/suppress the warning. \[WARNING\]: conditional statements should not include jinja2 temp…

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## [AWX + BitBucket + New Template](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-bitbucket-new-template/35604)

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**Author:** [@Sergio\_Rodriguez](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sergio_Rodriguez)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2021, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-bitbucket-new-template/35604 "2021-08-10T07:06:33Z")

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good morning, I have a server installed with awx on docker. I have created a project connected to git (with BitBucket credentials) and when creating a new template and selecting the bitbucket project, I get the followin…

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## [vault\_password\_file how to create?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vault-password-file-how-to-create/35602)

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**Author:** [@Jiri\_Sachl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jiri_Sachl)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 9, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vault-password-file-how-to-create/35602 "2021-08-09T16:47:54Z")

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Hello. Sorry for my english. I have Ubuntu server 20.04, ansible core 2.11.3. my hosts file has only ip address in ansible.cfg is: remote\_user = spravce private\_key\_file = /home/spravce/.ssh/spravce\_id\_rsa.ppk vaul…

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## [Get Process ID of ansible-playbook within the playbook](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-process-id-of-ansible-playbook-within-the-playbook/21778)

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**Author:** [@Rajas\_Pimpalwadkar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rajas_Pimpalwadkar)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [August 9, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-process-id-of-ansible-playbook-within-the-playbook/21778 "2021-08-09T15:27:15Z")

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I want to add locking around some part of a playbook. For this I need to get the process id of ansible-playbook that has started the task that I am currently running. How do I get process id of ansible-playbook that the…

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## [How to execute nifi-toolkit cli commands using ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-execute-nifi-toolkit-cli-commands-using-ansible/35601)

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**Author:** [@shweta\_julur](https://forum.ansible.com/u/shweta_julur)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 9, 2021, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-execute-nifi-toolkit-cli-commands-using-ansible/35601 "2021-08-09T10:18:36Z")

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Hi, I am trying to automate the deployment of flows in nifi UI, to do that I will be using nifi-toolkit cli commands. is there any way that I can execute these commands through ansible (.yml file). Thanks Shweta

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## [AWX extra-vars query (survey)](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-extra-vars-query-survey/35596)

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**Author:** [@AharonuReddy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AharonuReddy)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 9, 2021, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-extra-vars-query-survey/35596 "2021-08-09T07:29:01Z")

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Hello All, Since i am new to Ansible world …i am looking for assistance. thank you vars: hostname: “{{ hostname1 }}” source\_vserver: “{{ hostname1 ~ ‘nvs1’ }}” source\_vserver: “{{ hostname1 ~ ‘nvs1’ }}” is the defau…

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## [need assisatnce in writing script for active-standby ASA firewall](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-assisatnce-in-writing-script-for-active-standby-asa-firewall/35600)

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**Author:** [@Vikram\_S](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vikram_S)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 8, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-assisatnce-in-writing-script-for-active-standby-asa-firewall/35600 "2021-08-08T19:47:17Z")

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I am trying to write a script for IOS upgrade of active-standby ASA firewall (failover pair). 2 firewalls are configured as Active-standby firewall for failover purpose. Which means if the active firewall goes down, sta…

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## [Infrastructure as Code vs Self-Service](https://forum.ansible.com/t/infrastructure-as-code-vs-self-service/35589)

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**Author:** [@Andreas\_Hubert](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andreas_Hubert)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 8, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/infrastructure-as-code-vs-self-service/35589 "2021-08-08T11:49:31Z")

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Dear Ansible Community, having your Infrastructure in Code, means you manage the code with a version control system (e.g. git). I have a case where I also configure the application we deploy with Ansible with various XM…

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## [How To Implement Module Defaults Groups For Custom Group Or Collection](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-implement-module-defaults-groups-for-custom-group-or-collection/35598)

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**Author:** [@Dhiwakar\_Ravikumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dhiwakar_Ravikumar)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 8, 2021, 5:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-implement-module-defaults-groups-for-custom-group-or-collection/35598 "2021-08-08T05:30:46Z")

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This link https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user\_guide/playbooks\_module\_defaults.html mentions a way to define a default for a group of modules such as aws, azure etc. I have a namespace.collection of modules th…

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## [Getting A ID Value Unique To An Instance Of An Ansible Playbook](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-a-id-value-unique-to-an-instance-of-an-ansible-playbook/35593)

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**Author:** [@Dhiwakar\_Ravikumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dhiwakar_Ravikumar)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 8, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-a-id-value-unique-to-an-instance-of-an-ansible-playbook/35593 "2021-08-08T01:44:15Z")

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I’m trying to create an external file that every single task (Python modules for which I’ve implemented) in the playbook should read from and write into some information. I wanted to use the process ID for the playbook …

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## [Import AWX database to AWX-Operator](https://forum.ansible.com/t/import-awx-database-to-awx-operator/35411)

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**Author:** [@Gordon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gordon)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [August 6, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/import-awx-database-to-awx-operator/35411 "2021-08-06T22:49:25Z")

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Hi there! I’ve got a problem to import my already used AWX databse in the newly created AWX-Operator. Maybe you can help me :slight\_smile: The problem is after i import the DB the server won’t come up. It just say: “In…

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## [GET error 520 accessing menu itens](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-error-520-accessing-menu-itens/35592)

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**Author:** [@Daian\_Conrad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Daian_Conrad)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 6, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-error-520-accessing-menu-itens/35592 "2021-08-06T19:54:39Z")

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Hi all I have some problems with AWX , I have a swarm stack working for a long time I believe a disk space incident generate the problem, but, now after postgres error(could not locate a valid checkpoint record) solved …

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## [k8s module - operator install - wait\_condition does not wait for readiness of operator](https://forum.ansible.com/t/k8s-module-operator-install-wait-condition-does-not-wait-for-readiness-of-operator/35595)

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**Author:** [@Martin\_Evans](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Martin_Evans)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 6, 2021, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/k8s-module-operator-install-wait-condition-does-not-wait-for-readiness-of-operator/35595 "2021-08-06T10:49:15Z")

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Hi, When I am installing an Operator with a wait condition such as: wait\_condition: type: “CatalogSourcesUnhealthy” status: “False” reason: “AllCatalogSourcesHealthy” The role continues to the next task even when th…

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## [Ansible.cfg location in AWX](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-cfg-location-in-awx/35518)

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**Author:** [@Wladyslaw\_Borysow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wladyslaw_Borysow)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 6, 2021, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-cfg-location-in-awx/35518 "2021-08-06T09:52:02Z")

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Hello Colleagues, I am a new user of AWX and I wanted to test some features of it. AWX was installed using AWX operator by minikube. My 2 basic questions are: which is the best way to interact with AWX file system an…

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## [LXD inventory from a different host](https://forum.ansible.com/t/lxd-inventory-from-a-different-host/35591)

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**Author:** [@David\_Hodgson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Hodgson)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 6, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/lxd-inventory-from-a-different-host/35591 "2021-08-06T09:23:16Z")

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Hi I have ansible on one host, and a cluster of LXD hosts, accessible via ssh. I think I’m missing something, but how do I tell the LXD inventory module to: run on (one of) the LXD hosts return inventory entries that …

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## [Getting A ID Value Unique To An Instance Of An Ansible Playbook](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-a-id-value-unique-to-an-instance-of-an-ansible-playbook/35594)

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**Author:** [@Dhiwakar\_Ravikumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dhiwakar_Ravikumar)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 6, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-a-id-value-unique-to-an-instance-of-an-ansible-playbook/35594 "2021-08-06T07:11:02Z")

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I’m trying to create an external file that every single task (Python modules for which I’ve implemented) in the playbook should read from and write into some information. I wanted to use the process ID for the playbook …

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