ansible

How to reproduce, troubleshoot, and fix the "FATAL template error while templating string" Ansible runtime error.

How to reproduce, troubleshoot, and fix the “not a valid attribute for a Play” error.

How to create an empty ~/example.txt file or update the time of an already create file.

How to checkout a git repository via SSH using Ansible module git.

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.

How to copy report.txt file to Windows remote hosts using Ansible module win_copy.

How to download a tarball from URL, verify the checksum, assign some permission with Ansible

How to reboot remote hosts with Ansible specifying the notification message to logged users, the delay seconds, and the verification command.

A real-life example about how the "deleteme" file and the "deleteme" directory with Ansible. Tested in a target Linux machine as well for idempotency of the Ansible Playbook.

How to Install Windows software with Ansible? Today I’m going to reveal a secret to installing software in a Windows managed host using Chocolatey Package Manager.

When you try to change permission to file your Ansible Playbook might end up with "chgrp failed" error. Let's investigate together why this error happens and how to solve it!

How to change file or directory permission with Ansible? I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code to change chmod and group of a test.txt file.