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Synchronize directories with Ansible

Synchronize directories with Ansible

Using Ansible synchronize module can be problematic, if sudo with a password is used on the target host.

Ansible set theory filters in practice

Ansible set theory filters in practice

Ansible has some really useful filters for various types of objects. A few of those are for sets of something [http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_filters.html#set-theory-filters]. Recently, I had to use them in practice. In this situation there was a set of system users in users group.

Version numbers in Ansible code

Version numbers in Ansible code

There are two useful Jinja filters that could help dealing with version numbers in Ansible code. One is version_compare, which allows to compare version numbers. The other is regex_replace, which can be used to get a major.minor version number from a longer version number. Version comparison It