Ansible

useful Ansible snippets

• Ansible Vault
• Passwordstore Lookup
• Ansible Vaults with GoPass
• Hashicorp Vault

• Ansible Docker Service Module

• ansible-cmdb

• ARA Records Ansible – records Ansible execution results to sqlite, mysql or postgresql databases by using an Ansible callback plugin. Includes a CLI, web interface and an HTTP API.
• paternoster – runs Ansible commands as regular CLI scripts.
• Mitogen for Ansible – redesigned UNIX connection layer and module runtime for Ansible, speeds up execution and reduces CPU usage.
• Ansible VSX IDE extension
• Ansible Runner

• Ansible 101 YouTube Playlist by Jeff Geerling (follows his book "Ansible for DevOps")
• Ansible in the NetworkToCode Blog

• Variable precedence – which variable gets evaluated first?
• Debugging tasks
• Jinja: Whitespace Control
• Protect secrets with SOPS
• YAML Inventory
• Special Variables
• Delegation – run tasks on other machines, do rolling upgrades etc.

• What's the difference between ansible_hostname and inventory_hostname?

• NetworkToCode Slack Channel
• #social:ansible.com Matrix chat room