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Articles tagged "ansible"

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Ansible Roles and Galaxy: Modular Playbooks for Production (2026)

Ansible roles tutorial 2026. Create roles with tasks, templates, handlers, and defaults. Use Ansible Galaxy community roles, pin versions in requirements.yml, and test with Molecule + Docker.

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Ansible for Linux Sysadmins: Automate Server Configuration with Playbooks (2026)

Learn Ansible for Linux sysadmins. Install Ansible, write your first playbook, use roles, manage inventory, and automate server configuration in 2026.

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Ansible: group_vars Overwritten on Same Host

With ansible 1.6.1 using Mac OSX group_vars are overwritten by another group when sharing the same host.

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Ansible: EC2 inventory script (ec2.py) returns: Forbidden

Running ec2.py/ec2.ini "out of the box" will raise "Forbidden". but setting elasticache = False and rds=False can solve this issue. Learn more here.

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Ansible: EC2 inventory script (ec2.py) returns: Forbidden

Running ec2.py/ec2.ini "out of the box" will raise "Forbidden". but setting elasticache = False and rds=False can solve this issue. Learn more here.

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Ansible: Failed to Transfer File to tmp

When running ansible the following error is raised: failed to transfer file to ~/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1487178101.89-244463273612786/setup.py: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1487178101.89-244463273612786/setup.py

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Ansible: Failed to Transfer File to tmp

When running ansible the following error is raised: failed to transfer file to ~/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1487178101.89-244463273612786/setup.py: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1487178101.89-244463273612786/setup.py

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Ansible ec2: too long for Unix domain socke

In this article we explain hot to fix the error too long for Unix domain socket changing some configuration.

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Ansible: Timeout Waiting for Privilege Prompt

Ansible 2.0 return error FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "ERROR! Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt: "} random times on long playbook