Brilliant! Thanks Edgars, I wasn't aware of non-interactive mode.
On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 9:31:52 AM UTC-4, Edgars wrote:
>
> You can use parted in non-interactive mode, something like this:
>
> command: parted -s /dev/{{ item.key }} unit s mklabel msdos mkpart
> primary 16384 100% set 1 lvm on
>
> Or, there is expect module, but I don't recommend it in this case.
>
> Edgars
>
>
> trešdiena, 2016. gada 13. aprīlis 15:16:59 UTC+2, richard kappler rakstīja:
>>
>> I am writing a playbook to set up new VM's remotely, and two of the tasks
>> require interaction with a utility and an app, and I'm presuming this could
>> be done in Ansible, but have no idea how, so I'm looking for a pointer to
>> the appropriate tutorial, or confirmation that Ansible can't do it.
>>
>> The first task is setting up the partitions, so I would need to start
>> either fdisk or parted (easy) but then I need to input commands to create
>> the partitions, wait for a new prompt, etc etc, then quit the utility.
>> Here's how I would do it manually ($ = command line prompt, > = utility
>> prompt):
>>
>> $fdisk /dev/sda
>> >c
>> >u
>> >n
>> >p
>> >[Enter] #use default for beginning of new partition
>> >+15G # make the partition 15GB in size
>> >n
>> >p
>> >[Enter] # default start of partition
>> >[Enter] # partition runs to end of disk
>> >w
>>
>> The second task requires installing and setting up a MongoDB instance.
>> I've got the installation bit ready and tested, but again have no idea how
>> to set it up using Ansible. Specifically, I need to start the Mongo console
>> (easy), but once the console is started, I need to give it a command that
>> loads a .js which sets up the database. More specifically, once the console
>> is started, it gives me a prompt (>) and waits for my input. I want ansible
>> to then input
>>
>> >load("path/to/create-my-database.js")
>> >quit()
>>
>> Can someone point me to pertinent tutorials?
>>
>> regards, Richard
>>
>
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