Forks

Question 1

Flag for forks

Answer 1

-f

Question 2

Default fork value and recommended

Answer 2

5

50

Question 3

Do a task on one host then on two, then on 50% of the rest hosts
Set if 30% of playbook fail, then, ansible will consider that whole playbook fails

Answer 3

• name: testing parallelism
  hosts: labservers
  become: yes
  serial:
  - 1
  - 2
  - 50%
  max_fail_percentage: 30
  tasks:
  
  • name: add host entry
    lineinfile:
    path: /etc/hosts
    line: 10.0.1.1 nagios

Question 4

Set number of forks in ansible.cfg

Answer 4

[defaults]

forks = 30