facts and magic variables — Ansible Community Documentation

Setting the remote environment — Ansible Community Documentation

Variables set with environment: do not automatically become Ansible facts, even when you set them at the play level. You must include an explicit gather_facts ...

Creating a playbook — Ansible Community Documentation

Get tips and tricks for using playbooks. Discovering variables: facts and magic variables. Learn more about the gather_facts keyword in playbooks. Previous ...

How To Use Variables in Ansible? - Blog - BlueVPS.com

Ansible magic variables are predefined variables that provide information about the execution environment, current host, or other contextual details. Magic ...

Roles — Ansible Community Documentation

Role directory structure · defaults and · vars may also include nested directories. If your variables file is a directory, Ansible reads all variables files and ...

Ansible Network Examples

Groups and variables in an inventory file. Ansible vault for password encryption. Common inventory variables ; Example 1: collecting facts and creating backup ...

Templating (Jinja2) — Ansible Community Documentation

Ansible uses Jinja2 templating to enable dynamic expressions and access to variables and facts. You can use templating with the template module. For example, ...

Dns lookup record and fail if no record exists - Get Help - Ansible

Discovering variables: facts and magic variables — Ansible Community Documentation · Using Variables — Ansible Community Documentation · ansible.

Interactive input: prompts — Ansible Community Documentation

If you want your playbook to prompt the user for certain input, add a 'vars_prompt' section. Prompting the user for variables lets you avoid recording sensitive ...

User Guide - Ansible Documentation

User Guide¶ · Hosts and Groups · Host Variables · Group Variables · Groups of Groups, and Group Variables · Default groups · Splitting Out Host and ...

Blocks — Ansible Community Documentation

Ansible provides a couple of variables for tasks in the rescue portion of a block: ansible_failed_task. The task that returned 'failed' and triggered the rescue ...

Ansible module architecture

This is the latest (stable) Ansible community documentation. ... variables from the playbook environment. It then ... Ansible doesn't perform any magic ...

Community.Windows - Ansible Documentation

win_auto_logon module – Adds or Sets auto logon registry keys. win_certificate_info module – Get information on certificates from a Windows Certificate Store.

Index of all Modules — Ansible Community Documentation

... variables from files, dynamically within a task ... community-star objects facts on Check Point over Web Services API ... magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) ...

Controlling where tasks run: delegation and local actions

Delegating tasks · The ansible_host variable and other connection variables, if present, reflects information about the host a task is delegated to, not the ...

Validating tasks: check mode and diff mode - Ansible Documentation

This is the latest (stable) Ansible community documentation. ... magic variable ansible_check_mode ... information (for example, the user module). Diff ...

The undef function: add hint for undefined variables

Ansible community forum · Documentation ... Discovering variables: facts and magic variables ... This is the latest (stable) Ansible community documentation.

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

This is the latest (stable) Ansible community documentation. ... Retrieves facts for a file similar to the Linux/Unix 'stat' command. ... Use file magic and ...

Loops — Ansible Community Documentation

Extended loop variables ... New in version 2.8. As of Ansible 2.8, you can get extended loop information using the extended option to loop control. This option ...

Re-using Ansible artifacts

Discovering variables: facts and magic variables ... This is the latest (stable) Ansible community documentation. ... variable with either --extra-vars or the vars ...

Error handling in playbooks — Ansible Community Documentation

The ignore_errors directive only works when the task can run and returns a value of 'failed'. It does not make Ansible ignore undefined variable errors, ...