Ansible VMware Connection Plugin & Become
When using VMware as the connection plugin to connect to remote hosts you commonly set two facts for username and password:
ansible_vmware_tools_user: "mkamner" ansible_vmare_tools_password: "Super Secret PW" This will work just fine for windows and with many tasks on linux.
However, if you want to use become: true on linux it will fail with the strangest error messages.
For example: apt will fail, because it can’t acquire the lock file
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IANA To openSSL Ciphers
Handy table to map IANA IDs of ciphers to their openSSL IDs used in web server configurations,
for example [[nginx]] ssl_ciphers
or proxy_ssl_ciphers
vCenter Cert Bundle
Errors connecting to vCenter or any ESXi server in the cluster without certificate errors?
- Get CA cert from the vCenter:
wget https://{{ YOUR VCENTER }}/certs/download.zip --no-check-certificate
- Install where required