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db0

How to convert an AWX/Ansible Automation Platform json inventory to an Ansible yaml inventory

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lemmy.dbzer0.comHow to convert an AWX/Ansible Automation Platform json inventory to an Ansible yaml inventory - Divisions by zeroI recently had the need to export an AAP inventory and use it manually with ansible. However there’s no easy way to do this and I couldn’t find anything online to do this, so I crafted a little conversion script. First of all, you need to export your AWX/AAP inventory from the API [https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3330041] (just go to https://your.awx.domain/api/v2/inventories/<inventory id>/script/?format=json&hostvars=1) and save the file locally. Afterwards, copy the below script and run it against the json inventory python import json import yaml import argparse def convert_inventory(json_file, yaml_file): try: with open(json_file, 'r') as infile: inventory = json.load(infile) with open(yaml_file, 'w') as outfile: def convert_lists_to_dicts(obj): if isinstance(obj, list): return {str(item): None for item in obj} elif isinstance(obj, dict): return {key: convert_lists_to_dicts(value) for key, value in obj.items()} else: return obj inventory = convert_lists_to_dicts(inventory) for hostname,hostvars in inventory['_meta']['hostvars'].items(): inventory['all']['hosts'][hostname] = hostvars del inventory['_meta'] yaml.dump(inventory, outfile, default_flow_style=False) print(f"Converted {json_file} to {yaml_file} successfully.") except Exception as e: print(f"Error: {e}") if __name__ == "__main__": parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Convert Ansible inventory from JSON to YAML format.") parser.add_argument("json_file", help="Path to the input inventory.json file") parser.add_argument("yaml_file", help="Path to the output inventory.yml file") args = parser.parse_args() convert_inventory(args.json_file, args.yaml_file)
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tjhowse

TIL of a deliberate source of Heisenbugs in the default sshd config:

MaxStartups 5:50:10

This means: Allow up to 5 simultaneous "starting" SSH connections. Between 5 and 10 starting connections, drop them randomly 50% of the time. Above 10: Do not allow any new SSH connections to start.

Took me a long time to diagnose why a particular combination of concurrent SSH processes would fail occasionally when connecting to this embedded machine.

simplified.guide/ssh/limit-sim

www.simplified.guideHow to set maximum SSH connections and sessions on a Linux Server
#sshd#ansible#swdev
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Johannes Kastl

Fun question for the #NixOS #Ansible bubble:

I noticed that Ansible on NixOS does not find python modules that have been installed from NixPkgs. This means, modules like the kubernetes module are not found and Ansible cannot do its work, when a task is executed on localhost (e.g. via delegate_to)

Is there a way to install those additional modules together with the Ansible package?

Or is this just some messup with autodetecting the python interpreter on localhost?

#python
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Dan Langille

In today's exercise in bravery/silliness, I'm going to complete reconfigure the gateway via #ansible.

Lately, I've just been running single updates:

ansible-playbook gateway.yml --tags=pf

Today, the tags are coming off. All the updates.

ansible-playbook gateway.yml

#FreeBSD
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Tim

The @tailscale folks have some excellent YT videos on setting up self-hosted servers on Digital Ocean using Terraform, Ansible, and of course, Tailscale. I just got my first Droplet running.

Part 1 - Getting started with cloud-init: youtu.be/e-X5FJwrkaA?si=t3iLP-
Part 2 - Terraform: youtu.be/PEoMmZOj6Cg?si=2IwHCw
Part 3 - Ansible: youtu.be/k5Xgt31yK2U?si=28MPbw

YouTubeHow to use cloud-init and Tailscale | Infrastructure as Code Series Part 1By Tailscale
#selfhosting#Tailscale#privacy
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Johannes Kastl

Dear #AWX users out there (AWX as in Ansible, not AWS as in Amazon...),

does anyone have good pointers on connecting AWX and #Hashicorp #Vault / #OpenBoa **without** having to define each secret/credential again in AWX?

I have set up a basic connection according to the documentation: ansible.readthedocs.io/project
And I have created a credential using that lookup and could successfully output its value in a playbook run in AWX.

But having to define a AWX credential for each secret that I need to pull from Vault/OpenBoa sounds like a lot of unnecessary duplication.
(Yes, I know you can manage AWX via Ansible. We do that already. But still, you need to define the credentials in your code somewhere for the automation to create it in AWX)

ansible.readthedocs.io12. Secret Management System — Ansible AWX community documentation
#DevOps#security#InfrastructureAsCode
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Ansible Community Team

The latest edition of the #Ansible Bullhorn is out - with updates on collections, core, and Ansible, as well as a reminder about #AnsibleFest happing in Boston in May.
forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullho

Ansible · The Bullhorn #179This week in Ansible Community Issue #179, 2025-03-28 (Past Issues) Welcome to The Bullhorn, our newsletter for the Ansible Community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, you’re welcome to chat with us in the Ansible Social room on Matrix, and mention newsbot to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue! AnsibleFest at Red Hat Summit - May 19-22, 2025 Ansible® is the key to scaling automation—and AnsibleFest is the place to find out how. Join u...
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Brad L. :verified:

Dear #LazyWeb / #lazyfedi,

I'm new to #k8s and am wondering how to handle templating large amounts of config files. I couldn't find anything super useful in my search so I have an #Ansible sidecar I run to generate the kustomizations and config files. My most recent Ansible change was 30 lines, it resulted in changing 5,000 lines of YAML which will further be fed to Kustomize.

There has to be a better way?

I've heard about Helm, Yoke, KRO, and using an operator pattern. My understanding of those options is:

* Helm - My Org recommends avoiding (I don't know why)
* KRO - Not stable, but FFS neither is Kustomize
* Yoke - Almost kinda operator pattern
* Operator Pattern - This feels like reinventing a fucking config manager (ala #Ansible, #Puppet, #Chef, #Saltstack) for every fucking project. What new hell this is.

I'm hoping I'm missing something because the only workable flow for this workload is:
1) Create ansible roles/playbook to generate the kustomization.yaml and resources
2) Generate those kustomizations, check them into git
3) Use Kustomize via GitOps to expand the YAML even more
4) Push a metric fuckton of YAML to production

I'm losing my mind over here.

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Oliver

Honestly, in what UNIVERSE can you remember something you don't do on a regular basis good enough to do it without having to read documentation and copy-paste stuff?

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to put that in a small #ansible role and call it with a tag or "when" clause as part of a playbook or whatever automation you have in place. 🥹

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Loafer

Creating a Github Deploy Key Using Web Services?

#ansible #github #curl #webservices #python3 #bash #linux #discourse

forum.ansible.com/t/creating-a

Ansible · Creating a Github Deploy Key Using Web Services?Attempt at using the API to Create a Deployment Key for my Repository: So I tried the following in my github account using the Create a deploy key documentation to select the permissions. The docs read the following: Fine-grained access tokens for “Create a deploy key” This endpoint works with the following fine-grained token types: ...Fine-grained personal access tokens   The fine-grained token must have the following permission set: "Administration" repository permissions (write) So I di...
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Loafer

Creating a Github Deploy Key Using Web Services?

#ansible #github #curl #webservices #python3 #bash #linux #discourse

forum.ansible.com/t/creating-a

Ansible · Creating a Github Deploy Key Using Web Services?Attempt at using the API to Create a Deployment Key for my Repository: So I tried the following in my github account using the Create a deploy key documentation to select the permissions. The docs read the following: Fine-grained access tokens for “Create a deploy key” This endpoint works with the following fine-grained token types: ...Fine-grained personal access tokens   The fine-grained token must have the following permission set: "Administration" repository permissions (write) So I di...
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ARA Records Ansible

I don't know who needs to hear this, but...

I have lost count of the number of people who go something along the lines of: "I have been meaning to try ara for a long time but our teams have been so busy that we haven't had the chance"...

Stop. Take 10 minutes and stop. Try it.

Most users are pleasantly surprised and cannot believe they did not take the time before.

Now these teams save time troubleshooting their #ansible playbooks and have more time for other things.

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