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    Ansible

Ansible tips and tricks
How To

Run Playbook in Parallel

To run a playbook in parallel, include the following:
strategy: free
Example:
---

- name: Setup redhat-test-0[1-4] VMs 
  strategy: free
  hosts: redhat-test-01,redhat-test-02,redhat-test-03,redhat-test-04

  roles:
  - redhat/host/redhat-test/fedora
Use .pem file

How To.  Inventory file:
[something:vars]
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=/home/sfloess/.ssh/mykeypair.pem

[something]
1.2.3.4
Encryption


Environment var DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE:  file containing password when encrypting.
Encrypt a variable:  ansible-vault encrypt_string --vault-password-file [password file] '[to encrypt]' --name 'key'

ansible-vault encrypt_string --vault-password-file ~/passwords/myVault 'mypassword' --name 'db_password'