Hello.
I would like to ask for hint related with following challange.
- Gather details about hosts (external IP for example) from RackSpace-Cloud
with RAX_modules
- Generate configuration for monitoring server related with RS-images.
So I have following setup:
- Remote VMs in RackSpace (RS) Cloud - which are behind NAT - so ansible
facts gather internal IP
- Remote VM with monitoring system
- Local VM for running ansible.
I've manged to do:
- Gather facts from RS-Cloud VMs - for example partiions, etc
- Gather external IP from RS with RAX modules.
*Challnage:*
How to force run delegate_to on monitoring system to generate correct
nagios configuation with valid external VM per host.
*Following Ansible documenation I have following playbook:*
# Gather details about RS
- name: RS-Cloud-VMs | Gather info about servers
hosts: www
connection: local
gather_facts: False
tasks:
- { include: roles/rax/tasks/gather_info_about_nodes.yml, rax_credentials
: 'files/rax/terr01.cfg', rax_region: DFW }
- include: roles/monitoring-server/tasks/generate_nagios_hostcfg.yml
*And task to generate nagios hostcfg looks:*
- name: Monitoring-Server | Generate main host files for node
template: src={{ item }}.j2 dest=/path/to/file/{{ item }}-{{ ansible_fqdn
}}.cfg
owner=ssh_login group=users mode=0644
delegate_to: monitoring
with_items:
- host
As you can see connection for Playbook is 'local' as recommended on your
documentation, task is doing delegate_to remote monitoring host, however
ansible is connecting with local host (forced by connection: local).
Could you let me know what is a best practice to achieve this, please?
Especially that:
- Some VMs (in RS cloud) are behind NAT so ansible is able only gather
internal IP
- Have to use rax module to get info about RS VMs with external IP.
The only one solution which comes to me is now:
- Generate required files locally
- Use rsync module later on monitoring system.
Not quite happy with this solution, but maybe will be the fastests.
Best regards,
Marcin Praczko
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