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How to use an Ansible Vault in an Ansible Playbook to store a password variable encrypted on disk.

Let’s troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error “Unable to connect to vCenter or ESXi API [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:897)” to find the root cause, connection problem connecting, and successfully run our Ansible For VMware Playbook code.

How to print the Date and Time and Timestamp in ISO 8601 format without using Ansible Facts using the date command-line utility in Ansible Playbook.

How to use Date, Time, and Timestamp in ISO 8601 format in Ansible Playbook.

Let’s troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error “Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ESXi API, [Errno -2] Name or service not known” to find the root cause, misspelled hostname in your Ansible Playbook, a connection problem connecting eventually using a secure VPN connection and successfully run our Ansible For VMware Playbook code.

How to select single or multiple tasks, include, import, play, block, and role in an Ansible Playbook using tags parameter of ansible-playbook command.

Unhandled exception errors are nasty Ansible problems. In a live demo, we are going to troubleshoot starting from the error message. We are going to investigate the root cause of the problem and fix using the win_user module.

How to pass or override an Ansible Playbook variable from the command line in plaintext, JSON, or YAML. Very useful to combine some script, automation, or shell variables. Example with fruit variable defined as “banana” and changed to “apple” or “raspberry”.

How to reproduce the undefined variable error in Ansible, troubleshooting, and fix to be able to successfully print the value of a variable on screen.

How to pause a playbook execution for a certain amount of minutes or seconds with Ansible.

Let's troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error "Syntax Error while loading YAML" to find the offending lines in our playbook code, the root cause, fix a missing quote, and verify the resolution is working.

Privilege escalation errors are one of the most common Ansible problems. In a live demo, we are going to troubleshoot starting from the error message. We are going to investigate the root cause of the problem and fix it.