# Latest **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=1045 [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1046 --- ## [with\_items in playbook context](https://forum.ansible.com/t/with-items-in-playbook-context/12799)
**Author:** [@mastermind](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mastermind)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/with-items-in-playbook-context/12799 "2013-05-14T12:17:22Z")
Hi, ive got the following playbook: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ecb41b6fa411871fb69c with the following var\_files: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6d33670bf74388dd3d39 But its not possible to iterate over wi… --- ## [authorized\_keys module change](https://forum.ansible.com/t/authorized-keys-module-change/12798)
**Author:** [@Mark\_Maas](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Maas)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/authorized-keys-module-change/12798 "2013-05-14T06:30:27Z")
Hi All, In my previous playbook, I had this: \`\`\` - name: USERS | Authorized Key toevoegen aan ${item.username} action: authorized\_key user=${item.username} key="$FILE(/etc/ansible/keys/${item.username}.pub)" with… --- ## [Rolling application deployments with Ngnix as LB](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rolling-application-deployments-with-ngnix-as-lb/12803)
**Author:** [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rolling-application-deployments-with-ngnix-as-lb/12803 "2013-05-13T22:00:09Z")
I’m currently doing something very similar, just using lineinfile module to add/remove ‘down’ from current host in upstream entry. --- ## [clarification on ec2 module usage](https://forum.ansible.com/t/clarification-on-ec2-module-usage/12802)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/clarification-on-ec2-module-usage/12802 "2013-05-13T18:29:18Z")
Here’s an example: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/blob/master/language\_features/eucalyptus-ec2.yml Some folks like to provision and configure in seperate steps, so you might use includes to make it doable. … --- ## [Traceback with the setup module on SLES 10 SP2 host](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-the-setup-module-on-sles-10-sp2-host/12800)
**Author:** [@Julien\_Tognazzi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Julien_Tognazzi)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-the-setup-module-on-sles-10-sp2-host/12800 "2013-05-13T17:40:43Z")
Hi, It seems that since ansible 1.1, the setup module failed on old SLES 10 SP2 host. I have the following traceback: fatal: \[myhost\] =\> failed to parse: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/user/.ansible/… --- ## ["Very large, active development team", Ohloh says](https://forum.ansible.com/t/very-large-active-development-team-ohloh-says/12797)
**Author:** [@Maykel\_Moya](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Maykel_Moya)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/very-large-active-development-team-ohloh-says/12797 "2013-05-13T15:47:18Z")
Hello I'm just browsing the page of the project in Ohloh\[1\] and saw this: """ Very large, active development team Over the past twelve months, 237 developers contributed new code to Ansible. This is one of the large… --- ## [Improvements in Vagrant Provisioner: Request for Comments](https://forum.ansible.com/t/improvements-in-vagrant-provisioner-request-for-comments/12778)
**Author:** [@Michel\_Blanc1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michel_Blanc1)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2013, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/improvements-in-vagrant-provisioner-request-for-comments/12778 "2013-05-13T11:25:47Z")
Hi! Salut Gilles, Seems we have the beginning of a french Ansible User Group :wink: Group 1 (mandatory): \* --inventory-file: already available since vagrant 1.2.0 \* --limit: already available since vagrant 1.… --- ## [ansibleFest presentations?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansiblefest-presentations/12796)
**Author:** [@Eric\_Palmer1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Eric_Palmer1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansiblefest-presentations/12796 "2013-05-12T16:04:15Z")
I can’t attend but really wish I could. Will the presentations be on line sometime after the conference. thanks Eric Palmer --- ## [Announcing Sponsors for AnsibleFest](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-sponsors-for-ansiblefest/12795)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-sponsors-for-ansiblefest/12795 "2013-05-12T12:29:11Z")
Hi everyone, Quick update. I’m happy to announce sponsors for AnsibleFest 2013! Extreme thanks to: AppDynamics – http://appdynamics.com edX – http://edx.org LogicMonitor – http://www.logicmonitor.com/ Want to come?… --- ## [15 new modules so far for 1.2!](https://forum.ansible.com/t/15-new-modules-so-far-for-1-2/12794)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/15-new-modules-so-far-for-1-2/12794 "2013-05-11T20:02:13Z")
Just got through merging a large portion of the pull request queue. Just got done merging a lot of the pull request queue. Check this out, 1.2 has some good stuff in it! Provisioning – rax (Rackspace cloud) Packaging… --- ## [Best practices with roles and variables](https://forum.ansible.com/t/best-practices-with-roles-and-variables/12793)
**Author:** [@Luca\_Berruti](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Luca_Berruti)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/best-practices-with-roles-and-variables/12793 "2013-05-11T12:34:33Z")
Hi, Suppose to have a variable (Y) used inside a role (X). Y is defined inside roles/X/vars/main.yml as “Y: reasonable\_default\_value” What about if host (A) must have its Y custom value? “Y: a\_custom\_value” inside h… --- ## [Of the Recent Pushes perhaps suggesting an Ansible-Contrib](https://forum.ansible.com/t/of-the-recent-pushes-perhaps-suggesting-an-ansible-contrib/12792)
**Author:** [@rektide](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rektide)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/of-the-recent-pushes-perhaps-suggesting-an-ansible-contrib/12792 "2013-05-10T21:34:51Z")
Greetings all, I've emailed you today regarding some current affairs- specifically, a rather sizable influx of new modules. So, good news! Just today we have: newrelic\_deployment notification module- https://github.… --- ## [help with ec2.py usage](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-ec2-py-usage/12791)
**Author:** [@Nicolas\_G](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nicolas_G)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-ec2-py-usage/12791 "2013-05-10T18:34:28Z")
Hi all, Following the guide at http://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/Manage/Ansible I’m trying to use the ec2.py to create an inventory of my running ec2 instances. How should I use ec2.py ? do I have to take the command output… --- ## [Ansible 1.2 - conditionals](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-2-conditionals/12790)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2013, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-2-conditionals/12790 "2013-05-10T13:40:54Z")
So, some things. “when\_foo” and “only\_if” are the way things used to work. There’s the new “when” in 1.2 that is intended to simplify everything. The when\_boolean stuff is something you should not be using in 1.2, becau… --- ## [A Maven module for Ansible?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/a-maven-module-for-ansible/12788)
**Author:** [@Timothy\_Appnel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Timothy_Appnel)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/a-maven-module-for-ansible/12788 "2013-05-10T02:43:30Z")
Has anyone experimented with creating a module for Maven installs? We use it for building and sometimes deploying our internal software that it may be useful to be able to go out with Ansible and do a build and install. … --- ## [Path to make ansible hostnames more flexible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/path-to-make-ansible-hostnames-more-flexible/12754)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/path-to-make-ansible-hostnames-more-flexible/12754 "2013-05-09T23:38:30Z")
Yeah I’m not sure why that patch was never submitted as a pull request. Can you send it along? --- ## [general design question](https://forum.ansible.com/t/general-design-question/12787)
**Author:** [@Ed\_Zarecor](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ed_Zarecor)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/general-design-question/12787 "2013-05-09T13:56:14Z")
Hello All, We are in the process of transitioning our config management to Ansible and I have a general question. Our initial effort involves creating a soup-to-nuts reference implementation of our platform. We envision… --- ## [variations on distro and version?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variations-on-distro-and-version/12786)
**Author:** [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variations-on-distro-and-version/12786 "2013-05-09T13:32:39Z")
​ansible does not provide high level modules to manage 'packages' but ​has distro specific modules, like yup and apt. If you manage different distro's, you could write a specific playbook per distro, handling the diff… --- ## [variations on distro and version?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variations-on-distro-and-version/12785)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variations-on-distro-and-version/12785 "2013-05-09T13:31:23Z")
You should use the group\_by module. It is highly misleading to think you can abstract away packaging by just selecting the package manager – names, config files, and other things are always different. Think about how A… --- ## [Ansible begginers question](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-begginers-question/12782)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-begginers-question/12782 "2013-05-09T13:23:03Z")
Hi and welcome, Replies inline. --- ## [Ansible Commander](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-commander/12781)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-commander/12781 "2013-05-09T12:21:45Z")
Hi everyone, As you may recall, ansible-commander was an idea I started on my couch over 6 months ago. Super extensive REST API, minimal elegant UI, the whole nine yards. However, it was too much to do alone (while a… --- ## [some improvements for the command-action](https://forum.ansible.com/t/some-improvements-for-the-command-action/12776)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/some-improvements-for-the-command-action/12776 "2013-05-09T00:56:45Z")
Can I ask what is your use case for creates and removes together? It seems a little confusing and I want to understand. I could possibly see creates and removes taking a fnmatch glob expression which might be easier tha… --- ## [For loop in template with every host in group except the current one](https://forum.ansible.com/t/for-loop-in-template-with-every-host-in-group-except-the-current-one/12780)
**Author:** [@Steve\_Irvine](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Steve_Irvine)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/for-loop-in-template-with-every-host-in-group-except-the-current-one/12780 "2013-05-08T20:00:10Z")
Hi Everyone, I’m trying to work out if something is possible. Imagine a playbook to configure a vpn mesh between a group of servers. If I created a group called ‘vpn’, then on each server I’d need to build template conf… --- ## [Improvements in Vagrant Provisioner: Request for Comments](https://forum.ansible.com/t/improvements-in-vagrant-provisioner-request-for-comments/12779)
**Author:** [@Gilles\_Cornu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gilles_Cornu)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/improvements-in-vagrant-provisioner-request-for-comments/12779 "2013-05-08T14:23:18Z")
ERRATUM-1: "–step:" CANNOT be in Group 1, but MUST be in Group 3! No interactive mode with Vagrant provisioning. Sorry copy-paste error… --- ## [Added AIX support](https://forum.ansible.com/t/added-aix-support/12355)
**Author:** [@Mark\_Maas](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Maas)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/added-aix-support/12355 "2013-05-08T13:45:11Z")
Dear List, A collegue of mine has added basix AIX support to the setup, user and group modules. We have no access to GIT behind the corporate firewall I’m afraid and he has no interest in using GIT anyway :wink: Is it… --- ## [Ansible Newsletter update / AnsibleFest reminder](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-newsletter-update-ansiblefest-reminder/12777)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-newsletter-update-ansiblefest-reminder/12777 "2013-05-08T02:59:08Z")
For those not on our newsletter list (you can sign up at http://ansibleworks.com on the main page), here’s a link: http://eepurl.com/y9JZ9 As highlighted in the Newsletter and mentioned previously, AnsibleFest now has … --- ## [shell issue](https://forum.ansible.com/t/shell-issue/12723)
**Author:** [@Michel\_Blanc1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michel_Blanc1)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/shell-issue/12723 "2013-05-07T20:08:09Z")
This is because when Ansible does "sudo vagrant", it doesn't use an interactive shell thus your .bash stuff won't be read, and ~/.rvm/bin is probably not appended to yout path. I do : shell bash -lc 'cd; rvm install … --- ## [advanced user managent](https://forum.ansible.com/t/advanced-user-managent/12773)
**Author:** [@Hudec\_Peter](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Hudec_Peter)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2013, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/advanced-user-managent/12773 "2013-05-07T07:28:15Z")
Hi all, I'm migrating form puppet. The last playbook/manifest which is missing is the user management. On the puppet I wroute module and some libs an it worked like this I habe list of pavl users in some array users… --- ## [Question about roles syntax](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-about-roles-syntax/12775)
**Author:** [@Oren\_Shomron](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Oren_Shomron)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-about-roles-syntax/12775 "2013-05-06T21:18:23Z")
Hi everyone, I was wondering about the syntax for parameterized roles: roles: --- ## [Ansible meetup in .BE](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-meetup-in-be/12774)
**Author:** [@jpmens1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jpmens1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-meetup-in-be/12774 "2013-05-06T14:54:44Z")
For those who haven't seen it, there's an Ansible meetup (BoF) being discussed at the moment, tentatively in Antwerp, Belgium, which is relatively easy to reach from around Europe. Interested? See the playbook at \[1\] … [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=1044) [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=1046)