Update 2019-05-09 Pull request #55816 has merged, so you can now use sudo with the docker connection driver even when sudo is configured to require a password. I often use Docker to test out Ansible playbooks. While normally that works great, I recently ran into an unexpected problem with privilege escalation. Given a simple playbook like this: — - hosts: all gather_facts: false become: true tasks: - ping: And an inventory like this:

Bitwarden is a password management service (like LastPass or 1Password). It’s unique in that it is built entirely on open source software. In addition to the the web UI and mobile apps that you would expect, Bitwarden also provides a command-line tool for interacting with the your password store. At $WORK(-ish) we’re looking into Bitwarden because we want a password sharing and management solution that was better than dropping files into directories on remote hosts or sharing things over Slack.

I wrote earlier about systemd-nspawn, and how it can take much of the fiddly work out of setting up functional chroot environments. I’m a regular Ansible user, and I wanted to be able to apply some of those techniques to my playbooks. Ansible already has a chroot module, of course, but for some situations – such as targeting an emulated chroot environment – that just means a lot of extra work.

If you have an Ansible inventory file that includes lots of per host variables, it’s not unusual for lines to get long enough that they become unwieldly, particularly if you want to discuss them in an email or write about them in some context (e.g., a blog post). I’ve just submitted pull request #14359 to Ansible which implements support for folding long lines using the INI-format convention of using indent to mark extended logical lines.

This is the second in a loose sequence of articles looking at new features in Ansible 2.0. In the previous article I looked at the Docker connection driver. In this article, I would like to provide an overview of the new-and-much-improved suite of modules for interacting with an OpenStack environment, and provide a few examples of their use. In versions of Ansible prior to 2.0, there was a small collection of OpenStack modules.