Knowledge Base

Here's a playbook I wrote for my Ops team. Apparently they're impressed by the simplest things.

---
# Filename: du.yml
# Author: bgstack15
# Startdate: 2018-07-24
# Title: Book that Runs du
# Purpose: Run du with elevated privileges, primarily for auditing /home
# History:
# Usage:
#    In ansible tower.
#    Variables:
#       path=/home   What location to check
#       max_depth=1  How many directories to read in to
#       tail=5       How many to show
# Reference:
# Improve:
# Documentation:

- name: book that runs du
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  become_user: root
  become_method: sudo
  tasks:

  - name: du
    shell: /usr/bin/du -xBM --max-depth "{{ max_depth | default('1') }}" "{{ path | default('/home') }}" | sort -n | tail -n "{{ tail | default('5') }}" | sed -r -e 's/[[:space:]]+/ /g;'
    args:
      warn: no
    register: du

  - debug:
      msg: "{{ du.stdout_lines }}"