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Retrieving Inventory Variables for External Job Template Invocation from Ansible Tower/AWX

by Alexei.Karve on October 2, 2020

This article goes into details for searching hosts based on group names, retrieving inventory variables and launching distinct subsets of jobs from a Job Template...

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Multiple Jumphosts in Ansible Tower - Part 11

by Alexei.Karve on August 23, 2020

Part 10 showed how to use Container Groups for multiple jumphost hops to avoid wrapper roles. This part shows how to use the sshuttle proxy...

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Multiple Jumphosts in Ansible Tower - Part 10

by Alexei.Karve on August 19, 2020

In previous parts we modified the playbooks to establish a tunnel or add the ssh keys to the ssh-agent. In this part, we will use...

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Multiple Jumphosts in Ansible Tower - Part 9

by Alexei.Karve on August 7, 2020

This recipe will show how to retrieve ssh credentials from a remote Hashicorp Vault or Cyberark Conjur over multiple jumphosts and use them to connect...

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Multiple Jumphosts in Ansible Tower - Part 8

by Alexei.Karve on July 28, 2020

We often need to efficiently transfer files between Ansible Tower and target host endpoints. Part 8 provides options to use the rsync and the synchronize...

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Multiple Jumphosts in Ansible Tower - Part 7

by Alexei.Karve on July 26, 2020

Part 7 covers the use of multiple jumphosts to distribute load or act as redundant jumphosts to provide failover capability, system parameters and ssh settings...

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Multiple Jumphosts in Ansible Tower - Part 6

by Alexei.Karve on July 10, 2020

If the primary path is unable to connect to the host either because one or more jumphosts in the primary path is dead or unreachable,...

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Multiple Jumphosts in Ansible Tower - Part 5

by Alexei.Karve on July 8, 2020

Unix domain socket files are especially useful to isolate job runs in bubblewrap. Part 5 shows how to connect via multiple hops of jumphosts using...

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Multiple Jumphosts in Ansible Tower - Part 4

by Alexei.Karve on July 5, 2020

The ssh-add is used to add ssh keys with optional passphrase to ssh-agent with expect providing passphrases when prompted. We also show the use of...

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Multiple Jumphosts in Ansible Tower - Part 3

by Alexei.Karve on July 4, 2020

Part 1 used custom credential types and host variables in Ansible Tower. Part 2 showed how to run jobs on Windows/Linux hosts by creating a...

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