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Configuring Ansible for VMware: Complete Setup Guide & Playbook

May 11, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, vmware, infrastructure, linux, python, datacenter, cluster, host, virtualmachine, pyvmomi, community.vmware, vmware_guest_info, tutorial, automation, scripting, devops, configuration management, playbook, module, ansible script

How to configure Ansible for VMware? Ansible provides various modules to manage VMware infrastructure, which includes data center, cluster, host system, and virtual machine.

Filter A List By Its Attributes - Ansible selectattr filter

May 9, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, playbook, filter, selectattr, report, ansible-playbook, facts

How to Filter A List By Its Attributes in an Ansible Playbook?

How to Run Only One Task in Ansible Playbook? - Ansible tags statement

May 6, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, playbook, tag, tags, statement, ansible-playbook

How to run only one task in an Ansible Playbook? I’m going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code.

Three options to Safely Limit Ansible Playbooks Execution to a Single Machine

March 31, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible run playbook on one host, ansible, limit, hosts, command-line, playbook, hostname, inventory, linux, shell

Three options to Safely Limit Ansible Playbooks Execution to a Single Machine.

Configuring Windows Hosts for Ansible: Step-by-Step Guide

March 7, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, configure, windows, user, playbook, windows 10, ansible for windows, ansible winrm

How to configure a Windows Host for Ansible? I’ll show you step by step on a freshly installed machine how to configure a “basic” authentication, use a Local Accounts for authentication and successfully execute a simple “win_ping” Ansible Playbook.

Break Strings Across Lines in YAML and Ansible

January 18, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, debug, module, code, variables, playbook, syntax

How to Break a string over multiple lines with Ansible? And in general with YAML language.