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## [timeout in ansible.posix.firewalld](https://forum.ansible.com/t/timeout-in-ansible-posix-firewalld/35238)

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**Author:** [@Ozgur\_G](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ozgur_G)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/timeout-in-ansible-posix-firewalld/35238 "2021-05-27T16:52:43Z")

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Hi, I’m using ansible on RHEL 7 remote servers to open up some ports temporarily. I’m looking at the official documentation but it is not clear to me whether the timeout set in integer is whether in seconds or minutes. …

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## [Ansible nxos\_static\_routes multiple destination address same next\_hops](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-nxos-static-routes-multiple-destination-address-same-next-hops/35235)

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**Author:** [@Arnau\_Amargant\_Domen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Arnau_Amargant_Domen)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-nxos-static-routes-multiple-destination-address-same-next-hops/35235 "2021-05-27T16:48:01Z")

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Hello, Is there a way to have multiple destination address and the same next\_hops? What I’m trying to do is shorten the lines of the playbook and better readability. If you see the following image repeats the same next…

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## [fix idempotence for this command](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fix-idempotence-for-this-command/35239)

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**Author:** [@Nicola\_L](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nicola_L)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fix-idempotence-for-this-command/35239 "2021-05-27T15:56:49Z")

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Hi, this task breaks the idempotence of my role: name: Set directories permissions for production installation command: find /opt/tomcat -type d -exec chmod -c 2750 {} ; register: find\_chmod\_result changed\_when: ‘f…

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## [Installing additional python packages](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installing-additional-python-packages/35218)

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**Author:** [@Brandon\_Ellis](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brandon_Ellis)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installing-additional-python-packages/35218 "2021-05-27T12:45:04Z")

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I need to install python-ldap for an inventory plugin I’m using. How do I install a python package for use in a plugin? Do I really need to remake the entire image with my desired virtualenv as described here, or is th…

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## [open source](https://forum.ansible.com/t/open-source/35236)

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**Author:** [@Shivani\_Chaudhary](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Shivani_Chaudhary)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/open-source/35236 "2021-05-27T10:33:59Z")

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Hello everyone, I want to start my journey with open source and right now I am taking a devops course and I want to start contributing to the community while learning but there are so many thing happening in the communi…

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## [Is there a way to set custom\_virtualenv through the tower-cli application](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-set-custom-virtualenv-through-the-tower-cli-application/35231)

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**Author:** [@Brandon\_Ellis](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brandon_Ellis)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-set-custom-virtualenv-through-the-tower-cli-application/35231 "2021-05-27T01:21:36Z")

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When doing “tower-cli inventory\_source create”, I see no parameter to specify the custom\_virtualenv property. How do I set this property via the CLI?

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## [Template tasks based on OS version...](https://forum.ansible.com/t/template-tasks-based-on-os-version/35232)

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**Author:** [@Andy\_Speagle](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andy_Speagle)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/template-tasks-based-on-os-version/35232 "2021-05-27T01:19:05Z")

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Hi Folks, I’m busy converting some puppet modules to ansible… and I’m trying to figure out how best to lay down some files based on the host os version… I’m trying to lay down one set of files if os\_version x… another s…

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## [Where do we edit the Ingress controller](https://forum.ansible.com/t/where-do-we-edit-the-ingress-controller/35233)

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**Author:** [@Joey\_Washburn](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joey_Washburn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/where-do-we-edit-the-ingress-controller/35233 "2021-05-27T00:25:23Z")

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I am deploying to K8s using a helm chart I have built. I need to adjust the path setting. Out of the box its looks like this - path: / I need to make sure the / is not there. Otherwise we cant hit the UI. As of now I go…

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## [Kubernetes: Cannot edit any logos; AWX Branding Repo has no effect.](https://forum.ansible.com/t/kubernetes-cannot-edit-any-logos-awx-branding-repo-has-no-effect/34775)

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**Author:** [@Brandon\_Ellis](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brandon_Ellis)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 26, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/kubernetes-cannot-edit-any-logos-awx-branding-repo-has-no-effect/34775 "2021-05-26T17:24:03Z")

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Hi, I’ve deployed AWX 17.1.0 on a Kubernetes cluster using the install playbook and I’m trying to edit the AWX branding logos to a custom one. What I’ve tried so far: Editing the logo-header.svg and logo-login.svg in …

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## [ansible\_managed vaule has changed and I can't work out why](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-managed-vaule-has-changed-and-i-cant-work-out-why/35229)

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**Author:** [@mike2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mike2)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 26, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-managed-vaule-has-changed-and-i-cant-work-out-why/35229 "2021-05-26T16:07:24Z")

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I’ve been using Ansible as a clone of the git repo, periodically checking out newer stable branches. I’m currently using the stable-2.8 branch but looking to move to a newer version. The splitting of Ansible in to parts…

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## [How do logos work in 19](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-logos-work-in-19/35230)

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**Author:** [@Joey\_Washburn](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joey_Washburn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 26, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-logos-work-in-19/35230 "2021-05-26T15:15:13Z")

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I did an install on a dev environment following the default instructions from GitHub and we have the newer AWX logo. Easy Peasy. Deploying to our prod environment I made an attempt to change the logos out to our team lo…

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## [installed packages](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installed-packages/35187)

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**Author:** [@Marcel\_de\_Vries](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Marcel_de_Vries)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 26, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installed-packages/35187 "2021-05-26T13:28:47Z")

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I have a test environment" control ansible1 ansible2 \[ansible@control ~\]$ ansible ansible1 -m setup | grep ansible\_local “ansible\_local”: {}, Why is “ansible\_local” empty? Normally you have the installed packages t…

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## [AWX and cluster mode](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-and-cluster-mode/33079)

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**Author:** [@driCs](https://forum.ansible.com/u/driCs)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 26, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-and-cluster-mode/33079 "2021-05-26T13:01:18Z")

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Hi all, Is AWX developed to run in a cluster mode or on a single server? Is it possible to simply add a second or third node in the “inventory” file and run the AWX installation normally? If cluster mode is natively s…

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## [nginx csrf error on login](https://forum.ansible.com/t/nginx-csrf-error-on-login/35228)

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**Author:** [@rene1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rene1)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 26, 2021, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/nginx-csrf-error-on-login/35228 "2021-05-26T06:16:28Z")

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Hi, does someone have a working nginx reverse config for 17.1.0 where the login works? our setup would be nginx:8052 ssl → awx:nginx:8052 nossl currently i tried this but i get the csrf token error 403 when i try to l…

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## [remote1 -\>fetch-\> control machine -\>copy-\> remote2](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remote1-fetch-control-machine-copy-remote2/35224)

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**Author:** [@Bond\_James](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bond_James)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remote1-fetch-control-machine-copy-remote2/35224 "2021-05-25T21:08:12Z")

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Hello! I have 2 remote hosts and 1 master node with my playbooks. I want that file with name “.env” was copy with module “Fetch” to Master node and then, with module “copy” will copy to Remote host 2 hosts: \[jitsi\] 1…

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## [How do I ensure kinit is ran?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-i-ensure-kinit-is-ran/35225)

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**Author:** [@Brandon\_Ellis](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brandon_Ellis)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-i-ensure-kinit-is-ran/35225 "2021-05-25T18:21:56Z")

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I’m playing around with an AD inventory plugin from joshinryz/ansible\_ldap\_inventory: Active Directory (LDAP) Inventory Plugin for Ansible (github.com) However, this plugin (and a few others) rely on kinit successfully …

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## [ansible tower failed to access user information. get returned status 401](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-failed-to-access-user-information-get-returned-status-401/35223)

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**Author:** [@manoj\_kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/manoj_kumar)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-failed-to-access-user-information-get-returned-status-401/35223 "2021-05-25T09:21:37Z")

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Hi Team, I am getting a error mentioned in $subject when I try accessing/logging in to the UI. In tower.log I see: in the tower.log, I see below message awx.api.generics status 401 received by user AnonymousUser attemp…

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## [Security updates](https://forum.ansible.com/t/security-updates/35222)

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**Author:** [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2021, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/security-updates/35222 "2021-05-25T09:15:59Z")

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Hi Regarding ansible release information, I don’t see any dedicated security announcement mailing list. Also the functionality that GitHub offers through the project’s security advisory page seems to be unused: https:…

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## [Disable Ansible EE](https://forum.ansible.com/t/disable-ansible-ee/35191)

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**Author:** [@rene1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rene1)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2021, 5:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/disable-ansible-ee/35191 "2021-05-25T05:37:00Z")

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Hey, In the docs it says, that EEs can be disabled? How and where? I want to use Ansible 19.1.0 only with the AWX-Task container. Thanks

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## [New releases: ansible-core 2.11.1, ansible-base 2.10.10, ansible 2.9.22](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-releases-ansible-core-2-11-1-ansible-base-2-10-10-ansible-2-9-22/35221)

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**Author:** [@relrod](https://forum.ansible.com/u/relrod)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2021, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-releases-ansible-core-2-11-1-ansible-base-2-10-10-ansible-2-9-22/35221 "2021-05-25T04:12:29Z")

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Hi all- we're happy to announce that the following general releases are now available: - ansible-core 2.11.1 - ansible-base 2.10.10 - ansible 2.9.22 How to get them

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## [awx mail notifications](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-mail-notifications/35213)

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**Author:** [@Jose\_Bisconti](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jose_Bisconti)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 24, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-mail-notifications/35213 "2021-05-24T21:07:44Z")

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Hi everyone, I am starting with awx and I am stuck on a topic. I comment on the scenario. For my new job I urgently need to configure the custom messages via mail to notify about the creation of vms. The documentation i…

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## [list and update lxc containers with ansible?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/list-and-update-lxc-containers-with-ansible/35220)

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**Author:** [@Robert2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Robert2)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 24, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/list-and-update-lxc-containers-with-ansible/35220 "2021-05-24T16:59:35Z")

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I see a lot of modules that will create, start, stop lxc containers, but none seem to be able to provide a solution to list containers on a host or update them. Has anyone found a module to do this other than using the c…

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## [How is AWX v19.1.0 working out so far?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-is-awx-v19-1-0-working-out-so-far/35219)

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**Author:** [@Brandon\_Ellis](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brandon_Ellis)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 24, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-is-awx-v19-1-0-working-out-so-far/35219 "2021-05-24T15:36:21Z")

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Early on I was very hesitant to upgrade to 18.0 because the default EE didn’t have the default windows modules. But lately I hear that has been changed. I’m getting very tempted now to make the change so I can take adva…

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## [Reading custom values from ansible.cfg in an action plugin](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reading-custom-values-from-ansible-cfg-in-an-action-plugin/35216)

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**Author:** [@Richard\_Gration](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Richard_Gration)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 24, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reading-custom-values-from-ansible-cfg-in-an-action-plugin/35216 "2021-05-24T13:48:43Z")

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Hi group! I wrote a custom inventory plugin and defined a bunch of custom options in the DOCUMENTATION string, for example approle\_role\_id: description: Vault approle role\_id. env: name: VAULT\_APPROLE\_ROLE\_ID ini: …

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## [Parsing json files with ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/parsing-json-files-with-ansible/35198)

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**Author:** [@Rodrigues](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rodrigues)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [May 24, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/parsing-json-files-with-ansible/35198 "2021-05-24T13:06:51Z")

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I’m trying to parse the json output of a VMware DVSwitch which i’ve extracted using Ansible module community.vmware.vmware\_dvs\_portgroup\_info using this role, however i can’t seem to get to the portgroups, can only disp…

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## [vSphere datastore multipath Info](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vsphere-datastore-multipath-info/35217)

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**Author:** [@Sundeep\_vemula](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sundeep_vemula)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 24, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vsphere-datastore-multipath-info/35217 "2021-05-24T12:49:35Z")

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How to get esxi datastore storage multi pathing information using ansible in csv format . …can this be achieved in ansible like powercli.

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## [Cleaning up Links and References in Ansible Documentation](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cleaning-up-links-and-references-in-ansible-documentation/35215)

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**Author:** [@gineesh](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gineesh)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 24, 2021, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cleaning-up-links-and-references-in-ansible-documentation/35215 "2021-05-24T10:04:14Z")

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Dear Team, Hope every one safe there. I would like to start some cleaning up on Ansible Documentation (https://docs.ansible.com/) where we have so many links pointing to unmaintained version of documentations. Eg: Pa…

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## [Help on Conditionals - When](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-on-conditionals-when/35212)

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**Author:** [@Sanoop\_Karat](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sanoop_Karat)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 24, 2021, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-on-conditionals-when/35212 "2021-05-24T07:07:12Z")

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Dear Team, I have been trying to add conditionals for my tasks and roles. But, the one I entered for role is getting evaluated to true always and the one on the tasks are evaluated to false. Can you help on what needs…

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## [Failed to create Preload Data](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-create-preload-data/35214)

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**Author:** [@Chuck\_Payne](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chuck_Payne)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 24, 2021, 4:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-create-preload-data/35214 "2021-05-24T04:23:00Z")

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So instead of virtual installed, I tried a docker installed for once. I am using Debian 10 with docker. AWX version 17.0.1, but when it got the last task, it failed. I can log in into awx, but I don’t see a local host. T…

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## [module development - module.run\_command in functions](https://forum.ansible.com/t/module-development-module-run-command-in-functions/35209)

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**Author:** [@Gabriel\_Machado](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gabriel_Machado)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 23, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/module-development-module-run-command-in-functions/35209 "2021-05-23T18:43:38Z")

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Hi, I’m developping a module for linux with several functions. Most of the functions i develop need to launch binary executables. I know, the best practice is to use module.run\_command() function to launch commands. B…

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