Ansible can proxy through a jump host / bastion host to connect to systems, but
there's something to watch out for that can cause a rather vague connection
failure of failed to connect to host via ssh citing kex_exchange_identification
Connection closed by remote host and Connection closed by UNKNOWN…
Building on previous work for subnet scanning
[https://blog.chasefox.net/ansible-iterate-a-subnet/] with ansible, I've written
a small playbook to identify IP conflicts within a remote network using ansible.
The inventory for the playbook can be any host that has the arping command,
which includes any linux machine, or edgemax…
Using ansible with iptables is a bit clunky, particularly with rule ordering and
duplication. The ansible iptables module does not check for existing rules
before plopping new ones in, and older systems (without -C) can be tricky to
check for existence of rules. This post explores using ansible to update…
How has it taken me this long?! Sometimes I feel tremendously silly for
overlooking the simplest of answers.
I've used loop_control to change the default loop variable, but I've never
noticed loop_control can also change the loop label. This is a game changer!
Previously, I've mangled data objects…
Ansible logic constructs are very simple. There are no for loops, but there is
with_sequence. If we can make a list, we can iterate the list. This shows how to
make a simple list of host addresses given a subnet (in CIDR notation).
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- hosts: localhost
gather_facts:…