Ansible

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Log and Verbosity

• Network Debug and Troubleshooting Guide

# Specify the location for the log file
export ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH=~/ansible.log
# Enable Debug
export ANSIBLE_DEBUG=True

# Run with 4*v for connection level verbosity
ansible-playbook -vvvv ...

WSL

• Setup ansible for WSL with ubuntu

Fixing case sensitive

- include_tasks: "os_{{ ansible_facts['os_family']|lower }}.yml"

Running on

MAC OS

OSX crash complaining of operation `in progress in another thread when fork() was called`

export OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES

Windows

WINRM

winrm quickconfig

dir wsman:\localhost\listener

Remove-Item-Path WSMan:\Localhost\listener\<name>
On MACOS
$ python3 -m venv wrm
$ soruce wrm/bin/activate
$ pip install pip --upgrade
$ pip install pywinrm

On Windows
Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Server -Force