Tag: ansible

Ansible – boolean variable in extra vars

 

Passing variables to Playbook with extra vars flag is something normal during the daily work. Even though Ansible offers two ways to do that, you can face the problem when you need to set the true or false values. You should not do something like —extra-vars “foo=true” with the boolean values. I know, it’s quite annoying, but we need to deal with it. So, if you read this post, you wonder how you can pass the boolean variable in extra vars. And now I want to tell you how to do that in a proper way. Variable Precedence First, let’s Continue reading

Ansible MySQL role – creating databases and users

 

When you have only one local database server dedicated to your application, there are no problems with creating a database and a user. But the problem appears when we want to create many databases and users manually. Of course we can create a bash script and run it everytime we want to create a new database and user, but there is another and easier way. This way is called Ansible. Ansible is a really helpful and excellent tool for automation. I have tried to use Ansible anytime since I have heard about it the first time. Some time ago I Continue reading

Ansible template Role – easy way of creating projects

 

Working with Ansible is a real pleasure. You can build your own roles and big projects with many combinations and configurations. But sometimes you only want to quickly deploy a whole project with specified roles. When your automation needs to run many roles in different configurations, you face the problem of flexibility and fast deployment. Admittedly, Ansible community created tons of solutions, but maybe this one would be helpful for some of you. Especially with fast or temporary provisioning projects on the nodes without fully configured Ansible environment. Ansible template Role is my fork of the Mohamed Boufnichel’s ansible_project_template Role. I Continue reading