How can I change root password via ansible to ~30 hosts? - linux

I need to update more than 30 hosts the root password.
I read that I can user user module for that... but I'm doing something wrong.
Can you drop some help here ?

Typo in above yaml file .
- name: Password rollover
user:
name: "{{ lookup('env', 'USER') }}" ## Should not have "-"
update_password: always
password: "{{ lookup('env', 'PASSWORD') }}"

I came across a similar situation and what I did to solve it was a playbook like this:
Filename: password_rollover.yml
---
- name: Password rollover
user:
- name: "{{ lookup('env', 'USER') }}"
update_password: always
password: "{{ lookup('env', 'PASSWORD') }}"
You use it passing those env variables:
USER=root PASSWORD=newpass ansible-playbook --limit group password_rollover.yml -b

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Ansible playbook loop with with_items

I have to update sudoers.d multiple user files with few lines/commands using ansible playbook
users.yml
user1:
- Line1111
- Line2222
- Line3333
user2:
- Line4444
- Line5555
- Line6666
main.yml
- hosts: "{{ host_group }}"
vars_files:
- ../users.yml
tasks:
- name: Add user "user1" to sudoers.d
lineinfile:
path: /etc/sudoers.d/user1
line: '{{ item }}'
state: present
mode: 0440
create: yes
validate: 'visudo -cf %s'
with_items:
- "{{ user1 }}"
The above one is working only for user1..
If I want to also include user2 --> How to change the file name : path: /etc/sudoers.d/user1
I tried below and its not working :
Passing below users as variable to main.yml while running
users:
- "user1"
- "user2"
- name: Add user "{{users}}" to sudoers.d
lineinfile:
path: /etc/sudoers.d/{{users}}
line: '{{ item }}'
state: present
mode: 0440
create: yes
validate: 'visudo -cf %s'
with_items:
- "{{ users }}"
So, basically I want to pass in users to a variable {{users}} as user1 and user2 and wanted to use the lines for each user from users.yml and add it to respective user files (/etc/sudoers.d/user1 and /etc/sudoers.d/user2).
So /etc/sudoers.d/user1 should look like
Line1111
Line2222
Line3333
and /etc/sudoers.d/user2 should look like
Line4444
Line5555
Line6666
Try to add quotes:
users:
- "user1"
- "user2"
- name: "Add user {{users}} to sudoers.d"
lineinfile:
path: "/etc/sudoers.d/{{users}}"
line: "{{ item }}"
state: present
mode: 0440
create: yes
validate: 'visudo -cf %s'
with_items:
- "{{ users }}"
As per Ansible Documentation on Using Variables:
YAML syntax requires that if you start a value with {{ foo }} you quote the whole line, since it wants to be sure you aren’t trying to start a YAML dictionary. This is covered on the YAML Syntax documentation.
This won’t work:
- hosts: app_servers
vars:
app_path: {{ base_path }}/22
Do it like this and you’ll be fine:
- hosts: app_servers
vars:
app_path: "{{ base_path }}/22"
cat users.yml
---
users:
- user1:
filename: user1sudoers
args:
- Line1111
- Line2222
- Line3333
- user2:
filename: user2sudoers
args:
- Line4444
- Line5555
- Line6666
I use template here, instead of lineinfile
---
cat sudoers.j2
{% if item.args is defined and item.args %}
{% for arg in item.args %}
{{ arg }}
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
the task content
---
- hosts: localhost
vars_files: ./users.yml
tasks:
- name: sync sudoers.j2 to localhost
template:
src: sudoers.j2
dest: "/tmp/{{ item.filename }}"
loop: "{{ users_list }}"
when: "users_list is defined and users_list"
after run the task.yml, generate two files under /tmp directory.
cat /tmp/user1sudoers
Line1111
Line2222
Line3333
cat /tmp/user2sudoers
Line4444
Line5555
Line6666

Ansible - Change user password on Linux

I'm doing some playbook to change username password on linux. I want to use the same playbook for all users.
What i am doing is:
- name: change users password
hosts: localhost
vars_files: ['credentials.yml']
tasks:
- user:
name: "{{ user_name }}"
password: "{{ dynamic_password | password_hash('sha512') }}"
And my file.yml:
credentials.yml
dynamic_password: "$6$mysecretsalt$QF9IdmmJLZWuEO8PKQ0w7c81Rre0hv.udU83ypIO3cG5DbAo90IXwHX6wcuhDJaLAkdE5KSSl9lKvdMFh810b."
generic_password: "$6$IxMDgSamMRSMAEY1$rfGAWC8xBgGMMGOFJXAMxnUuiKVKrH3SDOuNIrJpx4rMZy/FG5spqp1f9oSAcDBpTJ2vOK2rAboWHZ6Zn5qZm."
What i am executing:
ansible-playbook prueba81.yml --extra-vars "user_name=pepito type_password=dynamic_password"
What i want to do, is indicate in the command line, the user and what password (inside of the file yml) should it use. But seems that the variable type_password is not recognized.
Can you help me?.
Thanks!!!!
Your extra-vars on the command line isn't setting type_password to the value of the variable dynamic_password. You're literally setting the variable type_password to be the string "dynamic_password".
If you want to tell ansible what variable to use from the command line, you can do it several ways. Here's one example:
ansible-playbook prueba81.yml --extra-vars "user_name=pepito type_password=dynamic"
tasks:
- user:
name: "{{ user_name }}"
password: "{{ dynamic_password | password_hash('sha512') }}"
when type_password == "dynamic"
Use lookup vars to reference the password indirectly. For example
- user:
name: "{{ user_name }}"
password: "{{ my_password | password_hash('sha512') }}"
vars:
my_password: "{{ lookup('vars', type_password) }}"
You might want to set a default type. For example
- user:
name: "{{ user_name }}"
password: "{{ my_password | password_hash('sha512') }}"
vars:
my_password: "{{ lookup('vars', type_password|default('dynamic_password')) }}"

Ansible vmware_guest optional disk with Ansible Tower survey

I have a playbook for the creation of a VM from a template in VMware ESXi 6.7. My playbook is below. I want to only configure the second (and possible subsequent) disks if the DISK1_SIZE_GB variable is > 0. This is not working. I've also tried using 'when: DISK1_SIZE_GB is defined' with no luck. I'm using a survey in Ansible Tower, with the 2nd disk configuration being an optional answer. In this case I get an error about 0 being an invalid disk size, or when I check for variable definition I get an error about DISK1_SIZE_GB being undefined. Either way, the 'when' conditional doesn't seem to be working.
If I hardcode the size, as in the first 'disk' entry, it works fine .. same if I enter a valid size from Ansible Tower. I need to NOT configure additional disks unless the size is defined in the Tower survey.
Thanks!
---
- name: Create a VM from a template
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: Clone a template to a VM
vmware_guest:
hostname: "{{ lookup('env', 'VMWARE_HOST') }}"
username: "{{ lookup('env', 'VMWARE_USER') }}"
password: "{{ lookup('env', 'VMWARE_PASSWORD') }}"
validate_certs: 'false'
name: "{{ HOSTNAME }}"
template: RHEL-Server-7.7
datacenter: Production
folder: Templates
state: poweredon
hardware:
num_cpus: "{{ CPU_NUM }}"
memory_mb: "{{ MEM_MB }}"
disk:
- size_gb: 20
autoselect_datastore: true
- size_gb: "{{ DISK1_SIZE_GB }}"
autoselect_datastore: true
when: DISK1_SIZE_GB > 0
networks:
- name: "{{ NETWORK }}"
type: static
ip: "{{ IP_ADDR }}"
netmask: "{{ NETMASK }}"
gateway: "{{ GATEWAY }}"
dns_servers: "{{ DNS_SERVERS }}"
start_connected: true
wait_for_ip_address: yes
AFAIK this can't be accomplished in a single task. You were on the right track with when: DISK1_SIZE_GB is defined if disk: was a task and not a parameter though. Below is how I would approach this.
Create two survey questions:
DISK1_SIZE_GB - integer - required answer - enforce a non-zero
minimum value such as 20 (since you're deploying RHEL)
DISK2_SIZE_GB - integer - optional answer - no minimum or maximum
value
Create disk 1 in your existing vmware_guest task:
disk:
- size_gb: "{{ DISK1_SIZE_GB }}"
autoselect_datastore: true
Create a new vmware_guest_disk task which runs immediately afterwards and conditionally adds the second disk:
- name: Add second hard disk if necessary
vmware_guest_disk:
hostname: "{{ lookup('env', 'VMWARE_HOST') }}"
username: "{{ lookup('env', 'VMWARE_USER') }}"
password: "{{ lookup('env', 'VMWARE_PASSWORD') }}"
validate_certs: 'false'
name: "{{ HOSTNAME }}"
datacenter: Production
folder: Templates
state: poweredon
disk:
- size_gb: "{{ DISK2_SIZE_GB }}"
autoselect_datastore: true
when: DISK2_SIZE_GB is defined

Ansible loops for assigning sequential integers as hostnames

I'm new to Ansible. I have the following playbook that changes the hostname for a remote server:
---
- hosts: dbservers
remote_user: testuser1
become: yes
become_method: sudo
vars:
LOCAL_HOSTNAME: 'db01'
LOCAL_DOMAIN_NAME: 'ansibletest.com'
tasks:
# Checks and removed the existing occurences of <IP hostname FQDN> from /etc/hosts
- name: Remove occurences of the existing IP
lineinfile: dest=/etc/hosts
regexp='{{ hostvars[item].ansible_default_ipv4.address }}'
state=absent
when: hostvars[item].ansible_default_ipv4.address is defined
with_items: "{{ groups['dbservers'] }}"
# Adds the IP in the format <IP hostname FQDN> to /etc/hosts
- name: Add the IP and hostname to the hosts file
lineinfile: dest=/etc/hosts
regexp='.*{{ item }}$'
line="{{ hostvars[item].ansible_default_ipv4.address }} {{ LOCAL_HOSTNAME }} {{ LOCAL_HOSTNAME }}.{{ LOCAL_DOMAIN_NAME }}"
state=present
when: hostvars[item].ansible_default_ipv4.address is defined
with_items: "{{ groups['dbservers'] }}"
- name: Remove HOSTNAME occurences from /etc/sysconfig/network
lineinfile: dest=/etc/sysconfig/network
regexp='^HOSTNAME'
state=absent
when: hostvars[item].ansible_default_ipv4.address is defined
with_items: "{{ groups['dbservers'] }}"
- name: Add new HOSTNAME to /etc/sysconfig/network
lineinfile: dest=/etc/sysconfig/network
regexp='^HOSTNAME='
line="HOSTNAME={{ LOCAL_HOSTNAME }}.{{ LOCAL_DOMAIN_NAME }}"
state=present
when: hostvars[item].ansible_default_ipv4.address is defined
with_items: "{{ groups['dbservers'] }}"
- name: Set up the hostname
hostname: name={{ LOCAL_HOSTNAME }}.{{ LOCAL_DOMAIN_NAME }}
In this example, LOCAL_HOSTNAME is already assigned a value of db01. And in this scenario, the dbservers group has only one server:
[dbservers]
192.168.1.93
However, I also have 2 other servers that are designated to be webservers:
[webservers]
192.168.1.95
192.168.1.96
[dbservers]
192.168.1.93
The aim is to name them as web01.domain, web02.domain and so on.
As per the docs it seems that this could be achieved by using with_sequence.
My question is, is it possible (in Ansible) to use 2 variables in loops? Something along the lines of the pseudo-code below:
i=1
for host in webservers:
open host(/etc/hosts):
add "IP<space>HOSTNAME{i}<space>"<space>"HOSTNAME{i}.FQDN"
i++
Could this be achieved using playbooks or am I approaching the issue in an wrong way?
Generate indexed hostname first, define it as hostfact and use it later to fill other servers' hosts files.
- hosts: webservers
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- set_fact:
indexed_hostname: "{{ 'web{0:02d}'.format(play_hosts.index(inventory_hostname)+1) }}"
- hosts: dbservers
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- debug:
msg: "{{ hostvars[item].indexed_hostname }}"
with_items: "{{ groups['webservers'] }}"
Also there is such thing as with_indexed_items.

Using ansible launch configuration module ec2_lc and securitygroup names versus id

I want to accomplish the following in aws ec2:
Create security groups using ansible module ec2_group.
Create a launch configuration using ansible module ec2_lc and attach a security group created earlier.
Now, i want to use the security group names instead of id's because i want to be able to recreate the whole infrastructure with ansible if needed.
Recreating security groups will cause the id of the group to be different.
But the ec2_lc module only accepts security group id's.
Is there any way i can map a security group id to a name?
I am defining security groups like this:
- name: create ec2 group
ec2_group:
name: "{{ item.name }}"
description: "{{ item.description }}"
vpc_id: "{{ item.vpc_id }}"
region: "{{ item.region }}"
state: present
rules: "{{ item.rules }}"
rules_egress: "{{ item.rules_egress }}"
register: sg
The launch configuration code looks like this:
- name: Create Launch Configuration
ec2_lc:
region: "{{ item.region }}"
name: "{{ item.name }}"
image_id: "{{ item.image_id }}"
key_name: "{{ item.key_name }}"
security_groups: "{{ item.security_groups }}" # how can i refer to specific group_id based on a group name?
instance_type: "{{ item.instance_type }}"
user_data: "{{ item.ec2_user_data }}"
instance_profile_name: "{{ item.instance_profile_name }}"
assign_public_ip: "{{ item.assign_public_ip }}"
Use the ec2_group-facts to query the security groups by name:
- ec2_group_facts:
filters:
group-name:
- "{{ sg.name }}"
register: ec2sgs
- debug:
msg: "{{ ec2sgs.security_groups | map(attribute='group_id')| list }}"
With some tribute to this question, you can try this:
- name: Create Launch Configuration
ec2_lc:
...
security_groups: "{{ sg.results | selectattr('item.name','equalto',item) | join('',attribute='group_id') }}"
...
You can write a filter, that can make an aws api call for you dynamically.
For instance I have something like this in my vars/main.yml
public_sg_id: "{{ 'Public' |get_sg(public_vpc_id, aws_region) }}"
Here is the code for get_sg filter.
import boto.ec2
from ansible import errors
def get_sg(name, vpc_id, region):
connect = boto.ec2.connect_to_region(region)
filter_by = {
"tag-key": "Name",
"tag-value": name,
"vpc-id": vpc_id
}
sg_groups = connect.get_all_security_groups(filters=filter_by)
if len(sg_groups) == 1:
return sg_groups[0].id
elif len(sg_groups) > 1:
raise errors.AnsibleFilterError(
"Too many results for {0}: {1}".format(
name, ",".join(sg_groups)
)
)
else:
raise errors.AnsibleFilterError(
"Security Group {0} was not found".format(name)
)

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