Ansible Lessons Learned
Ansible Lessons Learned
Table of Contents
Playbooks
Admin Scripts
Main repository: Admin-Scripts
Add users on RedHat Linux machines
Creates users, adds them to groups, and copys ssh key into authorized_keys
Link to playbook: add_users.yml
Register machines to a RedHat Satellite Server
Define the machines in the host inventory that you want to register. Modify the activation_key, satellite_org_id, satellite_katello_rpm, and satellite_url under group vars.
Link to playbook: register.yml
Errors
Requested Data Type Primary not Available
TASK [Install updates] *************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [tower00.paas-govcloud.agilesof.org]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Error: requested datatype primary not available\n", "rc": 1, "results": []}
FIX: Republish the meta-data for the content view subscribed to on the RedHat Satellite Server.
Ansible Vault
Encrypt Strings
ansible-vault encrypt_string ‘mypassword’ –name ‘password’
Decrypt Strings in a file
ansible localhost -m debug -a var=’password’ -e “@file.yml” –ask-vault-pass