rkm / ansible-issues

Misc. collection of issues and gotchas encountered when using Ansible

ansible-issues

Issues

Overriding boolean variables

When overriding a bool from the CLI e.g. -e"foo=false", false will be parsed as a string. When this is used in a conditional on its own, it will not be interpreted as a boolean, so results may be surprising.

A few solutions:

• -eFOO=
• -e{FOO: false}
• Be paranoid and put | bool at the end of all your conditionals

Tips

Debug

Print debug information without requiring -v (which will print debug info for every task).

- debug: var=foo

OR

- debug:
    msg: foo is {{ foo }}

Pause

Stop task execution here.

- pause:

TODO

• Note on system dnf/selinux libs for RHEL
• Note on controller vs remote sources