# Latest **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=915 [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) **Page:** 916 --- ## [Using Ansible to check for a custom program to be installed](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-to-check-for-a-custom-program-to-be-installed/16885)
**Author:** [@Adrian\_Grebin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adrian_Grebin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-to-check-for-a-custom-program-to-be-installed/16885 "2014-11-27T12:51:52Z")
Hi guys, i am new to Ansible, and trying to make good use of it on our environment. We’re running a tool that is called Opsware (that is some kind of ansible as well…) that should be running it’s agent on each node. I … --- ## [new modules and initial support for cloudstack](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-modules-and-initial-support-for-cloudstack/16893)
**Author:** [@Rene\_Moser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rene_Moser)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-modules-and-initial-support-for-cloudstack/16893 "2014-11-26T19:45:11Z")
Hi I just created a PR https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/121 for inital support of cloudstack. The first two modules are: cloudstack\_vm (virtual machines) cloudstack\_sshkey (ssh key management) T… --- ## [Incongruous implementation of \`with\_items\` in package modules](https://forum.ansible.com/t/incongruous-implementation-of-with-items-in-package-modules/16896)
**Author:** [@Devin\_Christensen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Devin_Christensen)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/incongruous-implementation-of-with-items-in-package-modules/16896 "2014-11-26T19:44:28Z")
Consider the following use case for managing modules in an apache role: Assume apache\_install\_modules is a list containing the items: module1, module2, and module3 name: install modules apt: name=libapache2-mod-{{ … --- ## [Somebody ranted about Ansible using Jinja and YAML.](https://forum.ansible.com/t/somebody-ranted-about-ansible-using-jinja-and-yaml/16898)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/somebody-ranted-about-ansible-using-jinja-and-yaml/16898 "2014-11-26T19:42:55Z")
Yeah this is an old post and this person is wrong on the internet. http://xkcd.com/386/ In the future, there’s no need to share these w/ the list, but feel free to argue with them in the comment section :slight\_smile: … --- ## [Different lookup behavior (in listify\_lookup\_plugin\_terms) between Ansible 1.7.2 and Ansible 1.8](https://forum.ansible.com/t/different-lookup-behavior-in-listify-lookup-plugin-terms-between-ansible-1-7-2-and-ansible-1-8/16895)
**Author:** [@David\_Fritzsche](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Fritzsche)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/different-lookup-behavior-in-listify-lookup-plugin-terms-between-ansible-1-7-2-and-ansible-1-8/16895 "2014-11-26T19:35:47Z")
Hi all, thanks for all the hard work to make the new Ansible version possible. I tested the new version with my current setup of playbooks and I got the strange behavior that some file content I lookup with lookup('fi… --- ## [Ansible 1.8 Released!](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-8-released/16887)
**Author:** [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-8-released/16887 "2014-11-26T19:08:54Z")
Hi all, We have released Ansible 1.8.0, which adds some exciting new features and modules, as well as many enhancements to cloud modules and other various bug fixes: Fact caching support, pluggable, initially support… --- ## [Ansible 1.8 and recursive non-Galaxy dependencies](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-8-and-recursive-non-galaxy-dependencies/16612)
**Author:** [@Collin\_Allen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Collin_Allen)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-8-and-recursive-non-galaxy-dependencies/16612 "2014-11-26T17:57:26Z")
Hi folks, I see in the docs that ansible-galaxy in 1.8 will allow users to control where roles are fetched from using a new requirements.yml format. This is remarkably useful for privately-hosted roles, so thanks to eve… --- ## [tower callbacks](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tower-callbacks/16894)
**Author:** [@Levi\_Notik](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Levi_Notik)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tower-callbacks/16894 "2014-11-26T15:01:57Z")
I created a simple playbook to test this out and I baked an AMI which curls the callback endpoint on startup (added as user data). If my inventory needs to contain the instance that triggers the callback, how does that … --- ## [when: "'dev' in tags" not working anymore - changed behavior between 1.7.2 and 1.8 for tags?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/when-dev-in-tags-not-working-anymore-changed-behavior-between-1-7-2-and-1-8-for-tags/16890)
**Author:** [@Mirko\_Friedenhagen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mirko_Friedenhagen)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/when-dev-in-tags-not-working-anymore-changed-behavior-between-1-7-2-and-1-8-for-tags/16890 "2014-11-26T13:34:27Z")
Hello, I have ported a bunch of puppet scripts to Ansible and we had a lot of puppet inner or extended classes. So basically I decided to switch on tags while including. In role/basepkg/tasks/main.yml I have - inclu… --- ## [Allocating a private IP for an EC2 instance fails](https://forum.ansible.com/t/allocating-a-private-ip-for-an-ec2-instance-fails/16770)
**Author:** [@vaida.dan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vaida.dan)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/allocating-a-private-ip-for-an-ec2-instance-fails/16770 "2014-11-26T10:30:53Z")
Hello all, I am creating a VPC with two subnets, a security group and trying to use those for launching an EC2 with a private IP address from one of the freshly created subnets. The problem seems to be that there is no… --- ## [recursively create symlinks with relative paths](https://forum.ansible.com/t/recursively-create-symlinks-with-relative-paths/15861)
**Author:** [@vaida.dan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vaida.dan)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/recursively-create-symlinks-with-relative-paths/15861 "2014-11-26T10:16:13Z")
Hello guys, I am trying to get my head around parsing a folder for its files and creating symlinks for those files found (depth 0) and place them in another directory. Example: parse sites-available/ and create symlink… --- ## [OS X 'pkg' module?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/os-x-pkg-module/16868)
**Author:** [@John\_Oliver](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_Oliver)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/os-x-pkg-module/16868 "2014-11-26T09:49:27Z")
Is there any kind of effort underway to produce a ‘pkg’ module for Mac OS X installers like ‘yum’ or ‘apt’? I’m not sure if that would count as ‘extra’ or ‘core’. If nobody else has started anything like that, I may jus… --- ## [ActionModule parameters](https://forum.ansible.com/t/actionmodule-parameters/16891)
**Author:** [@Pawel\_Rozlach](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pawel_Rozlach)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/actionmodule-parameters/16891 "2014-11-26T09:38:37Z")
Hi! I am automating some DNS stuff and decided to implement some of the logic inside a module. I need to: load a file in YAML format (just like include\_vars module does) merge the contents of the loaded files with hos… --- ## [CFP Cfmgmtcamp 2015](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cfp-cfmgmtcamp-2015/16889)
**Author:** [@Vincent\_Van\_der\_Kuss](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vincent_Van_der_Kuss)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cfp-cfmgmtcamp-2015/16889 "2014-11-26T07:11:07Z")
Hi all, As some of you might already know, there will be a cfgmgmtcamp organized in 2015. The CFP is online and people who would like to speak can submit their talk. more info on the website : http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ … --- ## [Creating a dynamic inventory module (Python) with special return structure and parameters](https://forum.ansible.com/t/creating-a-dynamic-inventory-module-python-with-special-return-structure-and-parameters/16886)
**Author:** [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/creating-a-dynamic-inventory-module-python-with-special-return-structure-and-parameters/16886 "2014-11-26T06:59:49Z")
dynamic inventory modules are supposed to return json, not ini this has examples: http://docs.ansible.com/developing\_inventory.html --- ## [EC2 inventory source enhancement: set the hostname to a tag](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-inventory-source-enhancement-set-the-hostname-to-a-tag/16884)
**Author:** [@Timothy\_Gerla](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Timothy_Gerla)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-inventory-source-enhancement-set-the-hostname-to-a-tag/16884 "2014-11-26T03:41:13Z")
Hi everyone, I put this little patch together for a customer a few months ago, and a number of people have found it useful: https://github.com/tgerla/ansible/compare/ec2-fqdn Basically it allows you to set the invento… --- ## [Install Yum Repo](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-yum-repo/16865)
**Author:** [@Ovidio\_B](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ovidio_B)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-yum-repo/16865 "2014-11-25T23:14:57Z")
Greetings, I’m very new to ansible and I created this simple playbook to install new relic, however I’m trying to see if there’s a way for the first task to see if the RPM is present. New Relic’s documenation has me ins… --- ## [Using ansible facts in playbooks](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-facts-in-playbooks/16873)
**Author:** [@Linto\_Paulson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Linto_Paulson)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-facts-in-playbooks/16873 "2014-11-25T22:21:32Z")
I wanted to accomplish something like this. I wanted to use the ansible facts like ansible\_eth0.ipv4.address to check if this fact is defined. name: Check if eth0 interface setup fail: msg=“eth0 interface not setup” … --- ## [Group of groups and variables](https://forum.ansible.com/t/group-of-groups-and-variables/16882)
**Author:** [@George\_Adams](https://forum.ansible.com/u/George_Adams)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/group-of-groups-and-variables/16882 "2014-11-25T22:17:43Z")
Is there a way to have a group\_vars file for a group of groups? For example, I have \[qa-webservers\] \[qa-dbservers\] \[qa:children\] qa-webservers qa-dbservers \[qa:vars\] some\_var=asdf other\_var=fdsa I’d like to pu… --- ## [reusing roles with environment proxy vars](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reusing-roles-with-environment-proxy-vars/14391)
**Author:** [@Marc\_Peiser1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Marc_Peiser1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reusing-roles-with-environment-proxy-vars/14391 "2014-11-25T21:31:05Z")
Hi there, I’m reusing some roles between many hosts and I have a problem where some hosts require me to use a proxy for internet access. I want to know if there is an easy way to use the same role but only defining the … --- ## [Controlling parallelism at task level?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/controlling-parallelism-at-task-level/16883)
**Author:** [@Matt\_Hughes](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Matt_Hughes)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/controlling-parallelism-at-task-level/16883 "2014-11-25T21:22:41Z")
The only way I’ve seen to control the parallelism of a task is with the --fork flag. Is there any way to control this at the task level? First three tasks can occur fully concurrently task 1 task 2 task 3 Then I want … --- ## [Support for Route 53 ListResourceRecordSets?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/support-for-route-53-listresourcerecordsets/16880)
**Author:** [@Josh\_Smift1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Josh_Smift1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/support-for-route-53-listresourcerecordsets/16880 "2014-11-25T17:45:57Z")
http://docs.ansible.com/route53\_module.html doesn't mention being a way to list all the records in a zone; http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/APIReference/API\_ListResourceRecordSets.html talks about an API call… --- ## [Use --extra-vars with .json file as input but per host](https://forum.ansible.com/t/use-extra-vars-with-json-file-as-input-but-per-host/16861)
**Author:** [@Marc\_Roelofs](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Marc_Roelofs)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/use-extra-vars-with-json-file-as-input-but-per-host/16861 "2014-11-25T14:21:09Z")
HI All, Not sure how to put this in writing … hopefully I can make my point clear. We use ansible for many different hosts to setup basic stuff like ntp/ssh access keys etc … What I would like to do ( and what works f… --- ## [Re-run a playbook until condition is met](https://forum.ansible.com/t/re-run-a-playbook-until-condition-is-met/16875)
**Author:** [@Fazal-e-Rehman\_Khan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Fazal-e-Rehman_Khan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/re-run-a-playbook-until-condition-is-met/16875 "2014-11-25T13:09:54Z")
Dear all, is there any way of replaying the playbook until there are no hosts in myPlaybook.retry file? regards, --- ## [Regression: ansible level branch unable to resolve playbook\_dir?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regression-ansible-level-branch-unable-to-resolve-playbook-dir/16859)
**Author:** [@Mirko\_Friedenhagen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mirko_Friedenhagen)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regression-ansible-level-branch-unable-to-resolve-playbook-dir/16859 "2014-11-25T12:36:57Z")
Hello, coming from 1.7.2 I just installed the devel branch (116109) via pip (git+https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git@devel#egg=ansible) (to get the omit feature). However a formerly working include: include: “{{pla… --- ## [Slashes in shell commands](https://forum.ansible.com/t/slashes-in-shell-commands/16864)
**Author:** [@James\_Morgan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Morgan1)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/slashes-in-shell-commands/16864 "2014-11-25T12:02:00Z")
Hi, Prior to Ansible 1.7.2 I did not need to add slashes to the end of each line. Since this version it complains if I don’t This causes a problem as different environments have different versions of ansible. Some 1.7,… --- ## [Re-run the playbook](https://forum.ansible.com/t/re-run-the-playbook/16874)
**Author:** [@Fazal-e-Rehman\_Khan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Fazal-e-Rehman_Khan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/re-run-the-playbook/16874 "2014-11-25T11:30:28Z")
Dear All, Is there a way to keep replaying the playbook until there are no hosts remaining in site.retry file? Regards, --- ## [Some doubts / problems about ansible-playbook with ansible-vault crypted files](https://forum.ansible.com/t/some-doubts-problems-about-ansible-playbook-with-ansible-vault-crypted-files/16841)
**Author:** [@Ricard\_Clau](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ricard_Clau)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/some-doubts-problems-about-ansible-playbook-with-ansible-vault-crypted-files/16841 "2014-11-25T11:13:18Z")
Hi everyone I was having a problem earlier today in a playbook using vault crypted files. I managed to refactor it to make it work but anyway I wanted to know your feedback in case this is my misunderstanding on how th… --- ## [Some strange bug in the template module when combining two variables - can someone confirm?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/some-strange-bug-in-the-template-module-when-combining-two-variables-can-someone-confirm/16872)
**Author:** [@Stephen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Stephen_Tan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/some-strange-bug-in-the-template-module-when-combining-two-variables-can-someone-confirm/16872 "2014-11-25T09:16:01Z")
I think I may have uncovered a bug in the template module. Whatever I do, I can’t remove inserted quotes for a dest path which are inserted by Ansible. The same combination DOES work for other modules. I have tried usi… --- ## [Seemingly simple template driving me mad](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-simple-template-driving-me-mad/16857)
**Author:** [@Stephen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Stephen_Tan)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2014, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-simple-template-driving-me-mad/16857 "2014-11-25T08:57:31Z")
Hi - I’m doing something which seems very simple - trying to create a file from a jinja template. Here are my vars: export\_root: host: “81.187.209.128/27” options: “rw,fsid=0,insecure,no\_subtree\_check,async” exports… [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=914) [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=916)