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Guides, FAQs & Howtos This category is for longer pieces of “how to” that haven’t made it into the docs (yet) or are commonly asked questions in Get Help. This also has high search priority, so please do use that search for your questions!

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
A quick guide to templating changes Get Help templating Templating changes Note that Ansible 12 and stable-2.19 are coming soon. We’ve decided to pin this post ahead of the actual releases so folks have a heads up. However the versions mentioned below are not actually availa…	2	268	July 22, 2025
About the Get Help category Get Help	1	785	July 28, 2023
ansible-playbook doesn't run handlers if play has different tag Get Help playbook , ansible-core , role	4	12	September 14, 2025
Announcing a Change in Support for cisco.asa: Transitioning to Community Maintenance Get Help network	0	5	September 13, 2025
AWX 23.8.1 : getting error "Invalid linkname for tarfile member" Get Help awx , playbook , awx-operator , module	1	302	September 12, 2025
Manual SSH connection works, via Ansible fails (used to work) Get Help ssh , cisco , ios	1	19	September 12, 2025
AWX extra_var for datetimes exhibiting different behavior between Ansible 2.18 and 2.19 Get Help awx , ee , ansible , ansible-project , 219	3	18	September 11, 2025
How to bulk add hosts in Ansible AWX using API? Get Help awx , kubernetes	19	1632	September 11, 2025
Get awx operator to run on OpenShift Get Help awx , awx-operator , openshift , ee , helm	0	13	September 11, 2025
Use pixi (in-repo conda envs) as a light execution environment Get Help ee	0	12	September 11, 2025
Best practices for using Ansible Vault: SSH keys and pushing Vault to Git? Get Help aws , ansible-vault , ansible	2	42	September 10, 2025
Ansible log user & group ownership Get Help rhel9	3	21	September 10, 2025
How to retrieve fact with a dynamic fact name? Get Help	10	62	September 10, 2025
Troubleshooting Dynamic Inventory in vmware.vmware.vms Get Help galaxy-ng , vmware , inventory	4	14	September 10, 2025
Task/playbook overwriting of vars Get Help	1	18	September 10, 2025
Segmentation Fault Python 3.13 venv Get Help galaxy-ng , fedora , ansible-galaxy	6	46	September 9, 2025
boto3/botocore errors with aws_ec2 plugin Get Help aws	10	47	September 8, 2025
If Statement 1 Or Statement 2 In Jinja2 Template Get Help	12	99	September 5, 2025
Dynamic Inventory with ansible-vault in AWX Get Help awx	0	45	September 5, 2025
Use Ansible to pull report of Installed, Failed, and Needed Windows Updates from WSUS Get Help windows	2	23	September 5, 2025
awx container group , jobs are in pending state Get Help awx	1	26	September 4, 2025
TSS Lookup and AWX Get Help awx , ee	5	38	September 4, 2025
Question about YML inventory structure Get Help	14	66	September 4, 2025
How do you upgrade packages for AAP? Get Help aap	1	34	September 4, 2025
AnsiballZ/PowerShell ParseError when using win_scheduled_task Get Help ubuntu , windows , wsl2 , powershell , ansiballz	3	32	September 4, 2025
Separate ansible logs for distinct target nodes Get Help rhel9	3	29	September 3, 2025
Ansible-test not loading collections from requirements.yml Get Help ansible-test , windows , aws	5	140	September 3, 2025
Getting Started with Ansible - Resources Guides, FAQs & Howtos howto , getting-started This is a small list of resources to get started using Ansible. Below you will find some links to documentation, free interactive labs (web based) and YouTube media content. Getting Started with a user journey. The @D…	2	2070	September 3, 2025
Community.general.systemd_info: Scopes Get Help community-general	0	21	September 3, 2025
Ansible 2.19 template change Get Help template	12	155	September 3, 2025