# Latest **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=983 [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) **Page:** 984 --- ## [AnsibleFest NYC - May 20th, 2014 - registration and call for papers open now](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansiblefest-nyc-may-20th-2014-registration-and-call-for-papers-open-now/14794)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansiblefest-nyc-may-20th-2014-registration-and-call-for-papers-open-now/14794 "2014-03-17T17:34:13Z")
Hi everyone, Just wanted to let you know that we’re doing an all-day AnsibleFest in New York this May. It’s going to be held on May 20th, and details (and the signup page) is here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ansiblef… --- ## [use root to create admin user before disabling root ssh](https://forum.ansible.com/t/use-root-to-create-admin-user-before-disabling-root-ssh/14784)
**Author:** [@Brice\_Dorman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brice_Dorman)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/use-root-to-create-admin-user-before-disabling-root-ssh/14784 "2014-03-17T15:27:51Z")
objective: I want to be able to run a single playbook on a host independent of what state its in and only change what’s necessary. problem: One of the plays in my playbook installs a SW package that disables root ssh,… --- ## [cobbler external inventory script, does not seem to pick up the already existing hosts in cobbler](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cobbler-external-inventory-script-does-not-seem-to-pick-up-the-already-existing-hosts-in-cobbler/14398)
**Author:** [@Joost\_Ringoot](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joost_Ringoot)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cobbler-external-inventory-script-does-not-seem-to-pick-up-the-already-existing-hosts-in-cobbler/14398 "2014-03-17T14:51:23Z")
Hello, I wanted to give “This script” (from http://docs.ansible.com/intro\_dynamic\_inventory.html#example-the-cobbler-external-inventory-script) a try to do the dynamic inventory. Benno helped me in irc to get rid of so… --- ## [Playbook synchronization](https://forum.ansible.com/t/playbook-synchronization/14792)
**Author:** [@Ilya\_Averyanov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ilya_Averyanov)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/playbook-synchronization/14792 "2014-03-17T13:52:29Z")
Hello, I have some problems with organising my application deploy setup: I have pretty different playbooks for different groups of hosts, but these playbooks have a few common roles which execution should be synchronise… --- ## [Inconsistent variables parser for ini inventory](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inconsistent-variables-parser-for-ini-inventory/14783)
**Author:** [@Oleg\_Bulatov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Oleg_Bulatov)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inconsistent-variables-parser-for-ini-inventory/14783 "2014-03-17T13:50:16Z")
Hi! I found that variables for hosts and for groups in the ini file are handled differently: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py#L127-L140 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob… --- ## [Documented Syntax with Modules](https://forum.ansible.com/t/documented-syntax-with-modules/14773)
**Author:** [@Jack\_Neely](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jack_Neely)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/documented-syntax-with-modules/14773 "2014-03-17T13:49:25Z")
Greetings, The documentation always uses the following syntax style when talking about or giving examples of module usage: name: Set up /tmp/timings file lineinfile: \> dest=/tmp/timings line=“{{ ansible\_local.prefer… --- ## [Problem with apt add-repository and updating the cache ?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-apt-add-repository-and-updating-the-cache/14791)
**Author:** [@Ben\_Turner](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ben_Turner)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2014, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-apt-add-repository-and-updating-the-cache/14791 "2014-03-17T05:48:17Z")
I’m running Ansible 1.5.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I’ve got the following two lines in one of my roles: name: Add brightbox repository apt\_repository: repo=ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng name: Install brightbox ruby apt: pkg=… --- ## [how to best report "changed" for a group of tasks](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-best-report-changed-for-a-group-of-tasks/14788)
**Author:** [@Xu\_Chen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Xu_Chen)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-best-report-changed-for-a-group-of-tasks/14788 "2014-03-16T21:35:36Z")
I wonder if there is a way to report “changed” for a group of tasks… For example, I want to have a play like this: include: sub-play1.yml include: sub-play2.yml “only when something changed in sub-play1” Or, a… --- ## [trigger or force a handler](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trigger-or-force-a-handler/14787)
**Author:** [@Xu\_Chen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Xu_Chen)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trigger-or-force-a-handler/14787 "2014-03-16T16:27:16Z")
I wonder if there is an elegant way to have a few tasks in a handler file, and execute them either triggered by other tasks or forced based on an input parameter. Here is the scenario I have in mind… use ansible to sy… --- ## [nova\_fip vs quantum\_floatingip](https://forum.ansible.com/t/nova-fip-vs-quantum-floatingip/14771)
**Author:** [@Koert\_van\_der\_Veer1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Koert_van_der_Veer1)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/nova-fip-vs-quantum-floatingip/14771 "2014-03-16T16:25:44Z")
I noticed there's now duplicate openstack floatingip support, both in nova\_fip and quantum\_floatingip+quantum\_floatingip\_associate. Is this duplication intentional? --- ## [RFC: JIRA module](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rfc-jira-module/14774)
**Author:** [@Steve\_Smith](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Steve_Smith)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rfc-jira-module/14774 "2014-03-16T16:19:26Z")
Hi, I’d like to ask for reviewers and comments for a JIRA module for Ansible: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/6168 It was developed as one our intermittent hackathons, but has fairly complete functionality (fo… --- ## [OpenStack folks: nova\_group module retooling needed (recently merged on devel)](https://forum.ansible.com/t/openstack-folks-nova-group-module-retooling-needed-recently-merged-on-devel/14777)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/openstack-folks-nova-group-module-retooling-needed-recently-merged-on-devel/14777 "2014-03-16T15:22:44Z")
Hi everyone, Recently as part of some cloud merging (trying to dent the backlog, etc) we merged a nova\_group module. This module used a dict comprehension though, which doesn’t fit our python requirements for modules. … --- ## [Run a logging task after Playbook ends?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-a-logging-task-after-playbook-ends/14785)
**Author:** [@Michael\_Mahemoff](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Mahemoff)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2014, 10:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-a-logging-task-after-playbook-ends/14785 "2014-03-16T10:29:54Z")
Is there any way to run a command after the playbook has finished running, so it would run once no matter how many hosts were processed? Kind of a callback handler or “super-notifier”. I have a Hipchat message generated… --- ## [lineinfile reporting 'changed' status when changes aren't needed](https://forum.ansible.com/t/lineinfile-reporting-changed-status-when-changes-arent-needed/14789)
**Author:** [@Michael\_Krieger](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Krieger)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/lineinfile-reporting-changed-status-when-changes-arent-needed/14789 "2014-03-16T05:14:12Z")
Foremost, I know the ‘best practice’ is to use the copy command for items such as this, however one goal is to keep the package-installed config files for basic system tools as close to the original package version to ea… --- ## [Ansible 1.5 is released!](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-5-is-released/14679)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-5-is-released/14679 "2014-03-16T00:22:10Z")
Or should we say, it escapes! And it’s on PyPi now. http://blog.ansibleworks.com/2014/02/28/ansible-1-5-released/ Read the blog link above for details, and if you don’t want to download via pip you can hit releases.an… --- ## [Ansible Galaxy Improvements](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-improvements/14766)
**Author:** [@Patrick\_Heeney](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Patrick_Heeney)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-improvements/14766 "2014-03-16T00:15:50Z")
Coming from puppet I used to depend on librarian-puppet and sorely miss that with ansible. This proposal would essentially expand upon ansible galaxy cli to provide a better way to install roles and dependencies other th… --- ## [How can I iterate until I find a unique file name/git tag using Ansible?\`](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-can-i-iterate-until-i-find-a-unique-file-name-git-tag-using-ansible/14786)
**Author:** [@Simon\_Holywell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Simon_Holywell)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-can-i-iterate-until-i-find-a-unique-file-name-git-tag-using-ansible/14786 "2014-03-15T23:09:45Z")
Hi, I am trying to replicate a deployment strategy in Ansible to replace a few hastily thrown together shell scripts. Perhaps some of this would normally be handled by a CI setup, but we don’t currently have one and the… --- ## [Changing release tarballs without bumping the version number is bad for packagers](https://forum.ansible.com/t/changing-release-tarballs-without-bumping-the-version-number-is-bad-for-packagers/14781)
**Author:** [@Robert\_Peichaer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Robert_Peichaer)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/changing-release-tarballs-without-bumping-the-version-number-is-bad-for-packagers/14781 "2014-03-15T16:40:18Z")
Hello Michael The Ansible Project changed the 1.5.3 release tarball to include https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/6491 without changing the release version number. That’s bad for packagers because it breaks most o… --- ## [Behavior of ec2\_elb module](https://forum.ansible.com/t/behavior-of-ec2-elb-module/14565)
**Author:** [@Bruce\_Pennypacker](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bruce_Pennypacker)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/behavior-of-ec2-elb-module/14565 "2014-03-15T13:27:58Z")
I occasionally run into an issue with the ec2\_elb module that I think needs to be addressed. This module is used to add and remove Amazon EC2 instances to/from an Amazon load balancer. The API into Amazon is asynchronous… --- ## [task from acl module running every time](https://forum.ansible.com/t/task-from-acl-module-running-every-time/14711)
**Author:** [@Hernandes\_Sousa](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Hernandes_Sousa)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/task-from-acl-module-running-every-time/14711 "2014-03-15T05:14:42Z")
This task is being marked as changed every time the playbook is run: name: Setting Acls acl: name=/mnt/www entity=www-data etype=group permissions=rwx default=yes state=present notify: Sync webroot I have tried rem… --- ## [conditional roles](https://forum.ansible.com/t/conditional-roles/12801)
**Author:** [@Yves\_Dorfsman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Yves_Dorfsman)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/conditional-roles/12801 "2014-03-15T02:32:25Z")
Is this normal/expected? I am trying to use conditional roles, and once it hits a negative condition, it skips every role afterwards: - hosts: all roles: - common - role: AppDynamics … --- ## [Should ec2\_asg required load\_balancers?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/should-ec2-asg-required-load-balancers/14778)
**Author:** [@Timothy\_Perrett](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Timothy_Perrett)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/should-ec2-asg-required-load-balancers/14778 "2014-03-14T22:41:54Z")
Hey all, Should the ec2\_asg module require the definition of load balencers? It seems the EC2 API does not require this, and it would be perfectly legitimate to make an autoscalling group that was scaling for workload, … --- ## [Ansible 1.5.1 released: security updates](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-5-1-released-security-updates/14751)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-5-1-released-security-updates/14751 "2014-03-14T18:03:01Z")
Ansible 1.5.1 Release Notes Today we’re releasing Ansible 1.5.1 which contains three security fixes/upgrades as well as a few assorted bugfixes that have been applied since the 1.5 release. An upgrade is suggested for a… --- ## [ansible 1.6: ec2\_lc does not function?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-6-ec2-lc-does-not-function/14772)
**Author:** [@Timothy\_Perrett](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Timothy_Perrett)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-6-ec2-lc-does-not-function/14772 "2014-03-14T17:34:25Z")
Hey all, I’m just trying out the ec2\_lc stuff and it appears to be non-functioning. I tried the following: ec2\_lc: name=special image\_id=“ami-XXX” key\_name=default security\_groups=‘group,group2’ But I get this er… --- ## [Switching User Confusion](https://forum.ansible.com/t/switching-user-confusion/14758)
**Author:** [@James\_Goodhouse](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Goodhouse)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/switching-user-confusion/14758 "2014-03-14T16:34:13Z")
I’m struggling getting Ansible to run commands under the proper user and I have a feeling it’s due to my misunderstanding of how things are working. For example, I’m provisioning a vagrant box, and in my inventory file … --- ## [yum module and localinstall](https://forum.ansible.com/t/yum-module-and-localinstall/11519)
**Author:** [@felix](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felix)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/yum-module-and-localinstall/11519 "2014-03-14T16:09:28Z")
Any plans to have the yum module be able to localinstall local rpms? Sometimes, I just want my own files outside of what is available so it’d be pleasant to be able to just have RPM files for what we need and install the… --- ## [failed to parse: SUDO-SUCCESS-ugbdmgqomyttgubummftugavvodrnugl when using mysql\_user with password lookup](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-parse-sudo-success-ugbdmgqomyttgubummftugavvodrnugl-when-using-mysql-user-with-password-lookup/14564)
**Author:** [@William\_Hall-BrandFo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/William_Hall-BrandFo)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-parse-sudo-success-ugbdmgqomyttgubummftugavvodrnugl-when-using-mysql-user-with-password-lookup/14564 "2014-03-14T16:03:32Z")
Similar to this discussion https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ansible-project/aBE51ToAC7A/QC3jwdPOK4MJ I am getting this error: failed to parse: SUDO-SUCCESS-ugbdmgqomyttgubummftugavvodrnugl I am trying to make use of th… --- ## [Searching the role path when developing a module](https://forum.ansible.com/t/searching-the-role-path-when-developing-a-module/14770)
**Author:** [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/searching-the-role-path-when-developing-a-module/14770 "2014-03-14T14:32:53Z")
Hi, i’m currently writing a module that takes a directory of configuration files as an argument. What would I need to do to have it take an argument ‘foo’, and find it at either ansible\_base\_dir/foo and ansible\_base\_dir/… --- ## [debug module: possible pull request](https://forum.ansible.com/t/debug-module-possible-pull-request/14768)
**Author:** [@Erik\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Erik_Anderson)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/debug-module-possible-pull-request/14768 "2014-03-13T21:24:14Z")
As currently implemented, if, in a moment of confusion, you pass in a variable directly instead of var=foo or msg=foo, the debug module’s output is less than helpful. For instance, if I run this against a host: --- ## [Ansible 1.5.3 update](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-5-3-update/14767)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-5-3-update/14767 "2014-03-13T21:03:49Z")
Hi all, As some may have noticed when rolling out the security upgrades in the 1.5.1 update we missed some module usage in various places – which wasn’t too good, obviously, and we’re taking a lot of steps to increase m… [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=982) [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=984)