Automation & Configuration

Notes on Ansible, cron, systemd, Terraform, and configuration management.

• Ansible Looping with Lists and Dictionaries with Advanced Filtering

• Ansible Roles Overview

• Ansible Terminology List

• Ansible, copy script, then execute in remote machine

• Automation & Configuration

• Conditionals

• Controlling where tasks run: delegation and local actions

• Creating a Basic Kickstart File for Automated Linux Installations

• Cron

• Error handling in playbooks

• Featured links

• How Add Public Key To Ansible Hosts Authorized Ke

• How Completely Remove Systemd Services

• How Restart Multiple Services At Once With Ansible

• How Run Basic Ansible Commands

• How Show All Actively Running Systemd Services

• How Stop Multiple Systemd Services

• How To Check The Systemd Journal Of A Specific Use

• How To List All Systemd Units In An Inactive State

• How do I write Ansible task for ‘systemctl set-default graphical.target’ without shell/command modules

• How to run only one task in ansible playbook?

• How to use ansible to detect the specific flavor of Linux?

• Kickstart Documentation

• Kickstart create users and add to groups

• Lingering Services – How to prevent systemd from killing my processes after I log off?

• Modifying Ansible Command To Exclude Certain Hosts

• My Ansible Commands

• Ping Ansible Hosts

• Running Ansible on bookworm

• Running Ansible task as a specific user

• Talk:Systemd-homed

• The Difference Between systemd Scope and systemd Slice

• This is the default ansible ‘hosts’ file.

• Troubleshoot node connectivity issues in Ansible Automation Platform controller

• Tuning And Profiling Logstash Pipeline Performance

• Use Ansible to (re)define root and first user password?

• Using Ansible Shell Module to Execute Remote Commands

• What Is Ansible Galaxy

• ansible.builtin.command module – Execute commands on targets

• ansible.builtin.copy module – Copy files to remote locations

• ansible.builtin.debug module – Print statements during execution

• ansible.builtin.expect module – Executes a command and responds to prompts

• ansible.builtin.file module – Manage files and file properties

• ansible.builtin.get_url module – Downloads files from HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP to node

• ansible.builtin.group module – Add or remove groups

• ansible.builtin.known_hosts module – Add or remove a host from the known_hosts file

• ansible.builtin.lineinfile module – Manage lines in text files

• ansible.builtin.pip module – Manages Python library dependencies

• ansible.builtin.script module – Runs a local script on a remote node after transferring it

• ansible.builtin.set_fact module – Set host variable(s) and fact(s)

• ansible.builtin.shell module – Execute shell commands on targets

• ansible.builtin.slurp module – Slurps a file from remote nodes

• ansible.builtin.stat module – Retrieve file or file system status

• ansible.builtin.user module – Manage user accounts

• ansible: lineinfile for several lines?

• community.mysql.mysql_db module – Add or remove MySQL or MariaDB databases from a remote host

• community.mysql.mysql_user module – Adds or removes a user from a MySQL or MariaDB database

• no systemd-nspawnd or machinectl?

• systemd-system.conf, system.conf.d, systemd-user.conf, user.conf.d — System and session service manager configuration files

• systemd.exec — Execution environment configuration

• systemd.timer — Timer unit configuration

• systemd.unit — Unit configuration