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Practical Ansible 2

You're reading from   Practical Ansible 2 Automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications with Ansible 2.9

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789807462
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible 4. Defining Your Inventory 5. Playbooks and Roles 6. Section 2: Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
7. Consuming and Creating Modules 8. Consuming and Creating Plugins 9. Coding Best Practices 10. Advanced Ansible Topics 11. Section 3: Using Ansible in an Enterprise
12. Network Automation with Ansible 13. Container and Cloud Management 14. Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies 15. Getting Started with Ansible Tower 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Digging into playbook execution problems

There are cases where an Ansible execution will interrupt. Many things can cause these situations.

The single most frequent cause of problems I've found while executing Ansible playbooks is the network. Since the machine that is issuing the commands and the one that is performing them are usually linked through the network, a problem in the network will immediately show itself as an Ansible execution problem.

Sometimes, and this is particularly true for some modules, such as shell or command, the return code is non-zero, even though the execution was successful. In those cases, you can ignore the error by using the following line in your module:

ignore_errors: yes

For instance, if you run the /bin/false command, it will always return 1. To execute this in a playbook so that you can avoid it blocking there, you can write something like...

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