I sometimes need to convert from a dictionary tree (like in data.yml) to a specific json formatted output file using Ansible.
In this case, I've used a combination of set_fact, a for loop and a combine filter to build my output. I'm
also using a regex_search to make sure I'm only getting records where the data I'm interested in is there!
Hope it's useful to people!
This yml file shows the relationship between the tz_database values for regions (e.g. Europe/London) and the Fortigate "system global timezone" value (e.g. 25 = Europe/London).
The TZ Database names are taken from a Wikipedia entry on TZ values, and the Fortigate values are found by me splitting the strings (on comma's) from when I have tried auto-completing the timezone field on a Fortigate model.
It is not a perfect list! Updates welcome!!
This script is used if you want to do a three-way sync between (for example) Dropbox, Nextcloud and Syncthing (depending on your personal deployment capabilities).
It should be relatively easy to determine what tweaks are needed to reduce this to a 2-way sync, or up to a 4, 5 or even 6 way sync.
This is an example of what I use with my work calendar, when I need to forward something to my personal calendar.
This macro does not include any of the meeting content (who will be there, what the content is), but is just to block out the time
to prevent your personal and professional lives from overlapping. This macro will create a new appointment for the time window,
optionally including the subject (or replace it with [WORK]) and optionally including the location (or replace it with [WORK]).
After the invite has been sent, it deletes the invite, so it doesn't look like you've got two meetings at the same time.
Here are three separate ways of using Ansible to perform system upgrades on an Ubuntu based system.
apt-update-upgrade.yml This is the absolute most basic playbook I use. It performs an apt update,
then apt full-upgrade and lastly an apt autoremove and apt autoclean.apt-update-upgrade-only-once-a-day.yml I use this in playbook where I'm repeatedly running it to do
installs or reconfiguration, or where I have unattended-upgrades installed.apt-update-upgrade-with-check.yml On systems where I'm not the only administrator, I don't always know
whether I'll want to apply an upgrade, so this gives me a chance to list off what packages will be updated
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| # and https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/install-wordpress-locally-vagrant/ | |
| Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| | |
| config.vm.define "wordpress" do |wordpress| | |
| wordpress.vm.hostname = "wordpress" | |
| wordpress.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb| | |
| vb.name = "wordpress" | |
| end |
| ssb_id="$(if command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then ssb-server whoami | jq -r .id ; else ssb-server whoami | grep id | cut -d\" -f4 ; fi)" | |
| ssb-server publish --type about --about "$ssb_id" --name "JonTheNiceGuy" --description "Linux advocating geek. Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer since 2018. Blogging @ [jon.sprig.gs](jon.sprig.gs) | |
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I am not a particularly good coder. As such take these as a suggestion of what could be, not what is happening! If this were to be accepted, it would need to be adopted by all the SSB clients (ssb-server, manyverse, etc). Also, this may be extremely simplistic and may produce far too many messages to the pool very quickly!
I asked on the Scuttlebutt IRC channel, and it was suggested that @MixMix might be interested in this?
Hmm, annoying. I was hoping to be able to say "if this isn't a list, and isn't a dict, then it might be a string" but instead "is sequence" returns true for list and dict and string... https://gist.github.com/JonTheNiceGuy/d19c26ed6ff7621fde1e84ceda8a473f
This is based on https://kapuablog.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/ansible-reading-a-remote-yaml-file/
It has been used in $my_service to generate client certificates on a protected Certificate Authority (CA) server (accessible only to my Ansible Tower/AWX server) and is then distributed to the client nodes.