Month: October 2020

AWX Isolated Node Setup

Isolated nodes in AWX/Tower are used to do work in remote or secured networks. The only connection required is SSH between the “controller” node (the main AWX/Tower instance), and your remote node. This device can now do work for you in this remote network.  The problem with setting these up is that I have yet

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Variable Issues in Ansible

This will be a short post today, feeling pretty dumb. Just learned the hard way that Ansible variable names can not start with numbers. It even says so in the first line of the documentation on variables: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html#creating-valid-variable-names You’ll get some pretty weird output if you try and start them with numbers. Basically it parses

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