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https://github.com/WeAreWizards/blog/blob/master/content/articles/ansible-and-nix.md https://www.middlewareinventory.com/blog/ansible-changed_when-and-failed_when-examples/ https://techsemicolon.github.io/blog/2019/07/07/ansible-everything-you-need-to-know-about-set-facts/
Since I use Nix to configure everything it's rare that I get a chance to play with other orchestration tools. Since these tools are very rarely used in combination with Nix, running them from NixOS can serve to be challenging. I'll show you some steps I took to get ansible working (non-reproducibly ugh) in Nix, and a basic rundown of how it works
Debug Printing
{{{yaml tasks:
- name: Show result
debug:
msg: "{{ result.stdout_lines }}"
}}}
Dumping Facts
{{{yaml tasks:
- name: Facts setup:
- name: Dump delegate_to: localhost run_once: true copy: content: "{{ hostvars[inventory_hostname] | to_nice_json }}" dest: /tmp/setup-dump.json }}}
Using Tags
Add a tag to the specific task you want to run {{{yaml
- name: d_ocean | db | test for existing mongodb
ansible.builtin.command: doctl db list -o json
changed_when: false
failed_when: false
register: db_check
tags:
- test
}}}
Then call the ansible playbook with --tags "test" included as a parameter passed to the binary