# Latest **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=992 [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) **Page:** 993 --- ## [node.js process manager provisioning + orchestration(?)](https://forum.ansible.com/t/node-js-process-manager-provisioning-orchestration/14516)
**Author:** [@Nathan\_Walls](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nathan_Walls)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/node-js-process-manager-provisioning-orchestration/14516 "2014-02-07T09:00:19Z")
Hi all, I’m responsible for prepping some node.js services for provisioning + orchestration. Along the way, the engineering team passed along a default of pm2. Looking at how it’d be provisioned, it’d be more interesti… --- ## [Some changes to the issue tracker (ansibot)](https://forum.ansible.com/t/some-changes-to-the-issue-tracker-ansibot/14488)
**Author:** [@tannerjc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tannerjc)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2014, 8:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/some-changes-to-the-issue-tracker-ansibot/14488 "2014-02-07T08:18:11Z")
Ansible has grown rapidly over time and has benefitted greatly from all the collaborators and contributors on github. One slight disadvantage to Ansible’s success is the volume of tickets created each day in the ticketi… --- ## [handlers and role dependencies](https://forum.ansible.com/t/handlers-and-role-dependencies/14514)
**Author:** [@James\_Martin2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Martin2)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/handlers-and-role-dependencies/14514 "2014-02-06T21:32:43Z")
Let’s say I have a role called haproxy which does basic installation and configuration of haproxy. I’d also have haproxy-riak & haproxy-riakcs roles, which would lay down a configuration file that is tuned for riak and … --- ## [Ansible version age warning when using devel](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-version-age-warning-when-using-devel/14513)
**Author:** [@William\_Jimenez](https://forum.ansible.com/u/William_Jimenez)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-version-age-warning-when-using-devel/14513 "2014-02-06T20:42:08Z")
This falls under the nice to have category, but I can see it saving users debugging time to have a simple, periodic warning about the age of your local ansible checkout being greater than some threshold (for people runni… --- ## [Get AttributeError: Values instance has no attribute 'su' on ansible == 3260e69](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-attributeerror-values-instance-has-no-attribute-su-on-ansible-3260e69/14508)
**Author:** [@Rinat\_Shigapov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rinat_Shigapov)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-attributeerror-values-instance-has-no-attribute-su-on-ansible-3260e69/14508 "2014-02-06T15:28:17Z")
I get error when try to use ansible from devel: $ ansible-playbook -i inventories/production/local.ini provisioning/ru-appservers.yml --tag configuration --check -vvvv Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/sr… --- ## [template with\_items fails with more than one item](https://forum.ansible.com/t/template-with-items-fails-with-more-than-one-item/14509)
**Author:** [@jepper](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jepper)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/template-with-items-fails-with-more-than-one-item/14509 "2014-02-06T15:00:01Z")
I am using templates and with\_items to loop over a directory of templates. When I do just one item, in my list it works. With 2 lines it fails: Works: name: replace variables in templates template: src={{item}}.j2 de… --- ## [group\_vars all organisation](https://forum.ansible.com/t/group-vars-all-organisation/14507)
**Author:** [@jepper](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jepper)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/group-vars-all-organisation/14507 "2014-02-06T13:54:57Z")
I use roles. In group\_vars for a role I have for 3 files that contain variables and values: esb mq httpd Sometimes esb needs info that is in httpd. I would like an “all” file to include one or more files, rather merg… --- ## [Vmware VCloud director api interaction with Ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-vcloud-director-api-interaction-with-ansible/14404)
**Author:** [@Luca\_Cancelliere](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Luca_Cancelliere)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-vcloud-director-api-interaction-with-ansible/14404 "2014-02-06T13:40:08Z")
Vcloud director is a Vmware orchestrator for cloud used by many cloud service provider. It expose an api rest interface to interact with it, should be be nice to integrated it with ansible for a complete orchestration. S… --- ## [Noob Question: Automating Playbook Execution](https://forum.ansible.com/t/noob-question-automating-playbook-execution/14506)
**Author:** [@Wojciech\_Hajduczenia](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wojciech_Hajduczenia)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/noob-question-automating-playbook-execution/14506 "2014-02-06T12:26:28Z")
Darren Chamberlain, i would appreciate for any kind of tutorial how you can wrap ansible playbooks within jenkins environment including any necessary initial setup to hosts/machine that operates jenkins and some simple … --- ## [Programmatic interface in node.js](https://forum.ansible.com/t/programmatic-interface-in-node-js/14505)
**Author:** [@Shahar\_Kedar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Shahar_Kedar)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/programmatic-interface-in-node-js/14505 "2014-02-06T05:33:25Z")
I’ve written a small library in node.js that wraps Ansible CLI with an easy to use API: http://shaharke.github.io/node-ansible/. While I love Python, I’m a full stack JavaScript developer and having an easy way to call … --- ## [How to concat variables and assign to a new variable in template?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-concat-variables-and-assign-to-a-new-variable-in-template/14504)
**Author:** [@howachen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/howachen)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2014, 4:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-concat-variables-and-assign-to-a-new-variable-in-template/14504 "2014-02-06T04:48:38Z")
Hi, For example, in template, {% if foo is defined and foo == “apple” %} I want to set foo equal to the concatenation of x + “,” + y + “,” + z, how? {% endif %} {{ foo }} --- ## [getting "failed to open a SFTP connection" error](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-failed-to-open-a-sftp-connection-error/14503)
**Author:** [@YuLing\_Chen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/YuLing_Chen)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-failed-to-open-a-sftp-connection-error/14503 "2014-02-06T01:42:49Z")
Hi All, I’m new to Ansible and trying to run the ansible commands against a remote VM Ubuntu instance. I set up ssh so that I was able to ssh to this VM Ubuntu instance without password. However, when I run ansible comm… --- ## [Issues with notify chains](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-with-notify-chains/14502)
**Author:** [@Dimitrios\_Kanellopou](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dimitrios_Kanellopou)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-with-notify-chains/14502 "2014-02-05T23:59:29Z")
Yes having the same issue with silent fails. I would prefer to exit with error if not possible. Gets you confused. --- ## [How to replay notifications](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-replay-notifications/14501)
**Author:** [@Dimitrios\_Kanellopou](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dimitrios_Kanellopou)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-replay-notifications/14501 "2014-02-05T23:38:59Z")
Currently I am switching from puppet to Ansible and I am a bit confused with some concepts or at least how ansible works. Some info on the setup: I am using the examples from \[Ansible Best Practices\]\[1\] and have struct… --- ## [Ansible featured on Github's Octoverse ("State of Github" page)](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-featured-on-githubs-octoverse-state-of-github-page/14500)
**Author:** [@Javier\_Candeira](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Javier_Candeira)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-featured-on-githubs-octoverse-state-of-github-page/14500 "2014-02-05T23:38:06Z")
http://octoverse.github.com/ It's the 5th repository with the mos contributors, at a total of 415. These are the 2013 numbers. It would probably be good to take a snapshot, as it changes yearly. J --- ## [variable precedence](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variable-precedence/14497)
**Author:** [@John\_Jarvis](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_Jarvis)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variable-precedence/14497 "2014-02-05T19:39:02Z")
Variable precedence is causing me some pain right now and would love to fix for the way vars\_files currently works, all I want is for -e to always win which is not currently the case. Are we open to fixing this? The … --- ## [ERROR: AsciiDoc 'a2x' command is not installed but is required to build](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-asciidoc-a2x-command-is-not-installed-but-is-required-to-build/14495)
**Author:** [@Yuri\_Lukyanov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Yuri_Lukyanov)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-asciidoc-a2x-command-is-not-installed-but-is-required-to-build/14495 "2014-02-05T18:40:04Z")
The recent devel branch requires a2x to make rpm. sed “s/%VERSION%/1.5/” docs/man/man1/ansible-pull.1.asciidoc.in \> docs/man/man1/ansible-pull.1.asciidoc ERROR: AsciiDoc ‘a2x’ command is not installed but is required t… --- ## [ec2.instance\_ids Invalid id](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-instance-ids-invalid-id/13716)
**Author:** [@Marc\_Peiser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Marc_Peiser)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-instance-ids-invalid-id/13716 "2014-02-05T16:14:51Z")
Hi, I’m trying to terminate an ec2 instance but I’m getting the following error: PLAY \[Terminate instance\] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* GATHERING FACTS \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*… --- ## [Other protocol/target for ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/other-protocol-target-for-ansible/14461)
**Author:** [@Ivan\_Kovalenko](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ivan_Kovalenko)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/other-protocol-target-for-ansible/14461 "2014-02-05T15:46:01Z")
Hi, i’d like to know is it possible to run ansible for configuration management against oracle instances (that is not hosts, but tnsnames). I see it like supplying a list of tns names or tns-addresess with plsql-scripts… --- ## [Dynamic inventory with Cobbler](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-inventory-with-cobbler/14492)
**Author:** [@Shuo\_Yang](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Shuo_Yang)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-inventory-with-cobbler/14492 "2014-02-05T14:42:51Z")
I am reading Ansible’s dynamic inventory, http://docs.ansible.com/intro\_dynamic\_inventory.html#example-the-cobbler-external-inventory-script One question regarding the following code snippet. I would love to hear a high… --- ## [Synchronize module asks password](https://forum.ansible.com/t/synchronize-module-asks-password/14484)
**Author:** [@Giorgio\_Valoti](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Giorgio_Valoti)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/synchronize-module-asks-password/14484 "2014-02-05T13:18:03Z")
Hi, I have just pulled the latest commits from the devel branch (commit: 2267503). Everythings work ok except for the synchronize module that now asks a password. Basically it uses the local user and not \`ansible\_ssh… --- ## [Add egress rules in ec2\_group](https://forum.ansible.com/t/add-egress-rules-in-ec2-group/14493)
**Author:** [@Codezerk](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Codezerk)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 10:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/add-egress-rules-in-ec2-group/14493 "2014-02-05T10:29:07Z")
I’m not sure why this option didn’t exist to begin with but I certainly use it all the time. I have the necessary changes over at GitHub - codezerk/ansible: Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that make… --- ## [Bootstrap, passwords, etc. making the process scalable](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bootstrap-passwords-etc-making-the-process-scalable/14473)
**Author:** [@Randolph\_Kahle](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Randolph_Kahle)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bootstrap-passwords-etc-making-the-process-scalable/14473 "2014-02-05T01:48:13Z")
I have adopted an approach of having a separate bootstrap phase which sets up SSH on a non standard port, adds core accounts, some other tasks, and finally reboots the compute instance. I am using this with Digital Ocea… --- ## [prototype of using setuptools to find packages and install scripts](https://forum.ansible.com/t/prototype-of-using-setuptools-to-find-packages-and-install-scripts/14491)
**Author:** [@Whit\_Morriss](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Whit_Morriss)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/prototype-of-using-setuptools-to-find-packages-and-install-scripts/14491 "2014-02-05T01:28:24Z")
I ran into a bit of a headache this morning trying wrap “ansible-playbook” into another python script I was writing. Rather than resort to mad refactoring (or execfile or subprocess), I thought it looked like a good fit … --- ## [Question about notify](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-about-notify/14490)
**Author:** [@Brennon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brennon)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-about-notify/14490 "2014-02-05T00:45:59Z")
Hello all, I’m completely new to ansible here, so I apologize for any terminology mistakes. I’m running ansible 1.5 on CentOS 6. In setting up a playbook, I’ve come across an issue with how notify acts. Below are some s… --- ## [Would it be nice to have bittorrent as a way to copy files around?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/would-it-be-nice-to-have-bittorrent-as-a-way-to-copy-files-around/14480)
**Author:** [@Steven\_Truong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Steven_Truong)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/would-it-be-nice-to-have-bittorrent-as-a-way-to-copy-files-around/14480 "2014-02-04T22:30:15Z")
Hi all, Included is a link to a talk that described using Fabric and bittorrent. If we could have this feature, Ansible will rule the world. http://in.pycon.org/2010/talks/63-deployment-to-large-server-farms-using-fabr… --- ## [Specifying the private key file in a playbook](https://forum.ansible.com/t/specifying-the-private-key-file-in-a-playbook/14489)
**Author:** [@Scott\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Scott_Anderson)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/specifying-the-private-key-file-in-a-playbook/14489 "2014-02-04T19:54:49Z")
Hello all, I’m trying to do this, conceptually: # this playbook might create the public ssh key file - hosts: 127.0.0.1 connection: local \[…\] - hosts: base\_instance connection: ssh remote\_user: ubuntu #… --- ## [Best practices for host aliases?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/best-practices-for-host-aliases/14487)
**Author:** [@Grzegorz\_Nosek](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Grzegorz_Nosek)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/best-practices-for-host-aliases/14487 "2014-02-04T15:05:09Z")
Hi, Are there any generally accepted best practices regarding host aliases? E.g. I have a bunch of similar environments (dev/stage/prod or different customers with similar setups or whatever) where different machines … --- ## [TypeError in play.py, \_load\_tasks for include statements in tasks/main.yml](https://forum.ansible.com/t/typeerror-in-play-py-load-tasks-for-include-statements-in-tasks-main-yml/14483)
**Author:** [@RobL](https://forum.ansible.com/u/RobL)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/typeerror-in-play-py-load-tasks-for-include-statements-in-tasks-main-yml/14483 "2014-02-04T14:46:33Z")
Hi, I’m just getting started with Ansible roles, and hit an error on my first attempt. Any help on debugging would be appreciated. \[ansible@localhost deploy\]$ ansible-playbook -c ssh --private-key=~/.ssh/AWSVBT.pem -vv… --- ## [teach netscaler module about HA clusters](https://forum.ansible.com/t/teach-netscaler-module-about-ha-clusters/14485)
**Author:** [@Howard\_Oettle](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Howard_Oettle)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2014, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/teach-netscaler-module-about-ha-clusters/14485 "2014-02-04T12:19:25Z")
Netscaler appliances have the potential to be deployed in clusters for high availability - one node primary, one (or more) nodes secondary. Unfortunately this can lead to cases where a user (or ansible module) can log in… [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=991) [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=993)