There was a need to iterate over the hosts in an Ansible inventory-file (don’t ask). After fiddling around with grep and sed, I found an easier method:

ansible-inventory --list all | jq " ._meta.hostvars| keys[]"

ansible-inventory --list all lists all hosts including their variables in a nice big json response …

We have a set of common pipeline jobs that are shared among different projects in Gitlab. We include them like this:

include:
  - project: 'shared/gitlab/linting'
    ref: master
    file:
      - markdown.yml
      - ansible.yml

When you do this, these included jobs get executed with the runner that is defined in the …

The nginx http_limit_conn module to limit http connections works as advertised. It limits the number of connections an ip-address (or other directives) can make to the nginx.

Also: the Ansible hardening-role for nginx as a default limit of 5 connections (see).

This bit me hard: One website I host makes …

And it is (at least for my instance) 4194304 bytes. That is 4,19 mb. You can easily achieve this by running some Ansible playbooks in diff-mode that unpack many files. :)

Job's log exceeded limit of 4194304 bytes.

Job execution will continue but no more output will be collected.

Using Ansible’s import_playbook module I was always under the impression that the module accepts no parameters and boldly stated so! However another commentor helpfully pointed out that I was wrong.

Here’s an example. The first playbook (importer_playbook.yml):

- import_playbook: imported-playbook.yml
  vars:
    foo: hunter2

… simply imports a second …