2.5: delegate_to, include_role with loops

There is a horrible regression in Ansible 2.5.

In Ansible version 2.4, if you have combination of delegate_to and include_role a given role was delegated to specified host. In Ansible 2.5 delegated role will be executed on the…

Beware! Ansible 2.5 incompatibility

I had plans to transition to ansible 2.5 after their fist bugfix release. But Ubuntu included ansible 2.5 into Bionic, and it crawled into my system usual updates. Surprisingly, most of the code worked (not counting few deprecation warning), but I found a problem…

Best practices for Ansible

I’ve recently made a presentation on some problems with using Ansible in large projects. While presentation was for employees only, I think, its slides may be useful for many.

Presentation on best practices in Ansible is available here…

Small discovery of the day: netselect

I just found a very cool utility today: netselect. It compares given hosts and answer which one is better (in terms of network connectivity). It’s a handy tool to choose a mirror for apt, or just to compare sites to each other. Under the hood it’s just a bundled…