Ansible Automation is really powerful with its filters and functions. It does provide various string manipulation and formatting filters from Jinja and Python. In this article, we are going to see how to Split strings in Ansible. As you might have already guessed, Ansible provides filters/functions to ease our job.[...]
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In this article, we are going to see the various use cases of Ansible Map Function or Filter. As Ansible Official documentation claims, All Jinja2 Filters can be used within Ansible. One such function or filter is map It helps us to filter and iterate complex datasets and a list[...]
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Ansible selectattr filter is to select matching objects from the dictionary by applying a test across all the objects in a dictionary/sequence. Ansible selectattr filter is basically an inherited version of Jinja selectattr filter. As Ansible Quotes in their documentation besides the built-in Ansible filters, all JINJA2 filters can be[...]
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In this article we are going to see how to use Ansible with Windows Host. How to Setup Windows machine for Ansible to be able to connect or remote login just like SSH in Linux. While there is a way to use SSH in windows which can be further leveraged[...]
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In this post we are going to see how to handle the Default webpage vulnerability in IIS with Ansible. The Default WebPage Vulnerability is flagged by Security Analysts and Pen testers cause it can reveal that the server is powered by IIS and it would let the hacker to try[...]
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Ansible for Windows has grown a lot from what it used to be, and the number of modules for windows is also increasing steadily. So Ansible is the right choice going forward for Windows Server Automation tasks. Of course, you need to use Powershell commands here and there. but collectively[...]
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What is awsall CLI tool This is a simple solution we have created to execute your AWS CLI commands on all AWS regions without having to mention --region argument all the time. Let's say you want to list the instances as a table with selected fields but you want to[...]
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In this post we are going we are going to see how to find a list of files containing a text or a pattern and replace them at once. As you know I have written a dedicated and brief articles on both Ansible find and replace modules with many examples.[...]
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Let's suppose that you have an infrastructure of 1000 hosts and you want to know how many of them use EFS - Elastic File System or traditionally known as Network File System Or Let's just say that you have 100 EFS File systems in your AWS account and you want[...]
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In this article we are going to see how to connect to remote hosts using Bastion host or Jump Server for Ansible playbook or Adhoc command execution. In General, We know it is a an easy job to connect to remote hosts from Ansible control machine ( where you execute[...]
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